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    Wallula Gap (/wəˈluːlə/) is a large water gap of the Columbia River in the Northwestern United States, in Southeastern Washington. It cuts through the...
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    Wallula (/wəˈluːlʌ/) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Walla Walla County, Washington, United States. The population was 179 at the 2010 census. The...
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    the Yakima, Walla Walla, Touchet and Tucannon river valleys. Wallula Gap is a large water gap through basalt anticlines in the Columbia River basin just...
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    Oregon and Washington, and Wallula Gap, Washington, United States Cumberland Narrows, Maryland, United States Delaware Water Gap, New Jersey and Pennsylvania...
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  • recreational activities. Wallula Gap List of lakes in Oregon List of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River "Lake Wallula - Washington Department of...
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    the south side of the Kittitas Valley (I-90), Manastash Ridge, the Wallula Gap (on the Columbia River where it approaches the Oregon state line), and...
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    showed. For example, their calculated water depth at the Pasco Basin–Wallula Gap transition zone is about 190 m, significantly less than the 280–300 m...
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    is a tributary of the Columbia River, joining the Columbia just above Wallula Gap in southeastern Washington in the United States. The river flows through...
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    Umatilla, leading to several attempts at finding a compromise along the Wallula Gap or in other areas southeast of the Tri-Cities. In 1973, Oregon and Washington...
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    range. The Horse Heaven Hills lead eastward from the Simcoe Mountains to Wallula Gap. The range is bounded in the west by Satus Creek near Bickleton, the...
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    made way down the Columbia river Channel where a 'choke-point' known as Wallula Gap caused the restriction of flow. Floodwaters began ponding near the Tri-Cities...
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    exposed these lava flows, laying bare many layers of the basalt flows at Wallula Gap, the lower Palouse River, the Columbia River Gorge and throughout the...
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    type former lake Primary inflows Channeled Scablands Primary outflows Wallula Gap of the Columbia River Basin countries United States Max. length 200 mi...
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  • known as a "road train", one of the earliest motorized vehicles. From Wallula Gap on the Columbia River, the Old Cariboo Trail was built over the route...
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    surrounds it, as they are often carried very far from their origin. Wallula Gap – Large water gap of the Columbia River through basalt anticlines in the U.S....
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    Ocean here and at Wallula Gap, this opening was "repeatedly reamed out, which probably widened and steepened the walls of the gap". Strandlines from...
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  • Sims Corner Eskers and Kames Steptoe and Kamiak Buttes Umtanum Ridge Water Gap Wallula Gap Withrow Moraine and Jameson Lake Drumlin Field Davis Canyon List of...
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    400 to 15,700 calendar years ago. During the floods, flow through the Wallula Gap was slow enough such that water pooled in a temporary lake, Lake Lewis...
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  • Territory, taking with it areas north of the Columbia River (west of Wallula Gap) and the 46th parallel. Olympia is established as the capital. 1855:...
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    Salmon-Clearwater was established in the Columbia River's modern path through Wallula Gap, although the Columbia itself still flowed somewhere to the west. The...
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    deposited. Water depths have been estimated at 1,000 feet (300 m) at Wallula Gap and 400 feet (120 m) over modern Portland, Oregon. Sediments were also...
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  • Columbia River on the Washington/Oregon border above The Dalles and below Wallula Gap. Lake Lewis; 16,000 YBP in central Washington, new Yakima. Glacial Lake...
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    from the eastern entrance of the Columbia River Gorge upstream to the Wallula Gap to form ancient Lake Condon. Elevation varies from 300 to 1,200 feet...
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    viticultural area in southeast Washington and northeast Oregon, east of Lake Wallula, to be known as "Walls Walls Valley." At the time, Walla Walla Valley viticultural...
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    rough-plucked surface characteristic of kolk-eroded rock. Both the walls of the Wallula Gap and the Columbia River Gorge also show the rough-plucked surfaces characteristic...
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    formation are buried by other sediment deposits, extending as far as Wallula Gap southeast of Kennewick. In recent years, irrigation water entering the...
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    (Dalles Group, etc.) exposed in tributary stream valleys downstream of Wallula Gap Miocene-Pliocene Snipes Mountain Conglomerate in the Yakima Valley at...
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    the Missoula Floods have been estimated at 1,250 feet (380 m) at the Wallula Gap (in present-day Washington), 830 feet (250 m) at Bonneville Dam, and...
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    of irregular buttes and basins and the Columbia River Gorge past the Wallula Gap. An unmarked tour route connects a network of state parks and other featured...
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    with deep sheer-walled canyons in the Grand Coulee, Moses Coulee, the Wallula Gap, and the Columbia River Gorge. There are giant ripple marks 30 ft (9...
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