O’Connor, “Number and Size of Last-Glacial Missoula Floods in the Columbia River Valley between the Pasco Basin, Washington, and Portland, Oregon,” … Continue reading but subsequent releases from Lake Missoula encountered Glacial Lake Columbia, itself created by another Cordilleran glacial lobe damming the Columbia River. Waitt, Jr., “Periodic Jökulhlaups from Pleistocene Glacial Lake Missoula-New Evidence from … Continue reading The largest and earliest floods may have flowed freely through the northern Columbia River Valley, Gerardo Benito and James (Jim) E. It is believed these flooding events were separated by a few years to six decades, per Richard B. Following the catastrophic failure of the approximately 2,000-foot high ice dam, along with multiple other large-scale releases of lake waters between about 15,000 and 18,500 calendar years ago, The cyclic ice damming/filling and subsequent release of Glacial Lake Missoula floodwaters occurred numerous times in the late Wisconsin, most probably between 12,700 and 15,300 radiocarbon years … Continue reading floodwaters repeatedly burst out of Lake Missoula and rushed westward seeking a route to the sea. It dammed the natural outlet of Clark Fork River, thus creating a nearly two hundred-mile long impoundment in western Montana now referred to as Glacial Lake Missoula.
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Three of the most popular narratives of the Missoula floods, often dubbed the Ice Age Floods, are John Eliot Allen, Marjorie Burns, and Scott Burns, … Continue reading During the last glacial period in the Pleistocene, During the Pleistocene Epoch, which began about 2.588 million years ago, much of southwestern Canada was repeatedly glaciated by a series of Cordilleran ice sheets that extended into northern … Continue reading a glacial lobe from the massive Cordilleran ice sheet advanced southeastward of present-day Lake Pend Oreille near the Idaho-Montana border.
From the moment they dipped their paddles into the Snake River, the Lewis and Clark expedition would not only be following the path of multiple flood basalt flows, but also the route of the colossal Glacial Lake Missoula floods that so markedly scoured the basaltic landscape.
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