Joseph Pardee, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJoseph Pardee
American geologist
Date of Birth: 30-May-1871
Place of Birth: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Date of Death: 01-Jan-1960
Profession: geologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Joseph Pardee
- Joseph T.
- Pardee (* 30 May 1871 in Salt Lake City, Utah; †2 March 1960 in Philipsburg, Montana) was a U.S.
- geologist who worked for the U.S.
- Geological Survey, and contributed to the understanding of the origin of the Channeled Scablands.
- He discovered the trail of evidence left by Glacial Lake Missoula, a lake created by an ice dam 23 miles (37 km) wide and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) high during the most recent ice age.
- He discovered that when the dam broke, the water flowed towards the scablands, supporting J Harlen Bretz's theory of the cataclysmic floods.
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