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# 3,000 Years of Ice and Floods at Pateros
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/nick-rocks/episode/3000-years-of-ice-and-floods-at-pateros-zlz14m/
- Published: 2024-12-30T22:30:55.000Z
- Updated: 2025-12-12T19:29:47.000Z
- Description: A town nestled between two rivers with formations that mystify geologists to this day.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Nick on the Rocks, Season 6, Episode 5, #ZZZ_Episode_9a75e6c4-3219-4f79-9c75-81a4b8125ac1, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_fb43f9d5-44f4-411a-854a-568025965642, #v1.16

The town of Pateros, Washington, sits at the confluence of the Methow and Columbia rivers in a landscape that has been dramatically shaped by ice and water over the past 20,000 years, including a terrace that mystifies geologists to this day.