If you've worked as a geologist in the West, it's a fairly safe bet that J.T. Pardee visited your field area decades before you arrived. Pardee, a geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, traveled as far as his little Ford Model T could take him—to hard rock mines in the Rockies, phosphate seams in Montana, fault scarps in the Basin and Range, and the desolate coulees of the Channeled Scablands. For more than 30 years, the government man journeyed along lonesome roads, trave

INTRODUCTION Glaciation of Mission Valley The Cordilleran Ice Sheet invaded northwestern Montana multiple times during the Pleistocene, overtopping mountain ranges, widening pre-glacial river valleys, and depositing moraines composed of clay-gravel diamicts that often lack a full complement of boulders. Mission Valley is a structural trough that extends south of Flathead Lake between Polson, MT and the Ravalli Hill divide. Two prominent, horseshoe-shaped moraines indicate the

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