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gt;gt;The Organic Machinegt;gt;gt;gt;gt;gt;CHAPTER 1gt;gt;gt;gt;Knowing Nature through Labor: Energy, Salmon Society on the Columbiagt;gt;gt;gt;gt;Igt;gt;gt;gt;Tgt;he world is in motion. Tectonic plates drift across a spinning planet. Mountains are lifted up and eroded to the sea. Glaciers advance and retreat. All natural features move, but few natural features move so obviously as rivers. Our metaphors for rivers are all metaphors of movement: they run and roll and flow.gt;gt;Like us, rivers work. They absorb and emit energy; they rearrange the world. The Columbia has been working for millennia. During the Miocene, volcanic eruptions deposited layers of basalt across the Columbia Plain. The upper Columbia cut a gutter through which it ran along the margins of the basaltic flow. At Wenatchee the rise of the Horse Heaven anticline caused the river to cut into the basalt; it drained into the Pasco basin, the lowest point on its route east of the Cascades, and emerged from the basin at the Wallula Gap. During the Pleistocene the collapse of an ice dam holding glacial Lake Missoula created the largest known freshwater flood in the earth's history. It was an afternoon's work for one of

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Author

Richard White, White, Richard

Publisher

Hill and Wang

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809035595

Category

history

Subjects

History, Nature, Science

Rating

3.73 / 5 (390 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14