Institute holds lecture on local cataracts

The Cheney-Spokane Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute is holding a free public lecture on why some of the local landscape looks so weird.

“Recessional Cataracts and the Ice Age Floods” takes place Friday, March 16, from 7-9 p.m. at Spokane Community College’s Lair Building (No. 6). Long-time Eastern Washington University geology professor, now retired, Dr. Gene Kiver will discuss cataract retreat and how it plays an important part in the process of the development of the bizarre landscape of Eastern Washington’s Channeled Scablands.

Kiver has co-authored three books including most recentl...