Missoula floods that reshaped much of Oregon and Washington between 18,000 and 15,000 years ago. Now scientists have found a way to travel back in time to watch the megafloods unfold, in a virtual ...

Mystery of the Megaflood homepage. The great continental ice sheets were melting very fast in the time of Glacial Lake Missoula, shedding great torrents of meltwater every summer, raising sea ...

Recognition of the Missoula flood helped other geologists identify similar landforms in Asia, Europe, Alaska, and the American Midwest, as well as on Mars. There is now compelling evidence for many ...

The answer is this - the great Missoula Floods. ... Fortunately, there are still scientists who care a great deal for figuring out what happened, and from that comes this recent breakthrough.

The 48,000 cfs fell midway between the standards for 100-year and 500-year floods in Missoula: 42,500 and 56,000 cfs, respectively. So maybe we've got another century to wait. Maybe we don't.

The great flood. As cataclysms go, the Missoula Floods rank up there with Oregon’s Cascadia Subduction Zone quake of 1700. During the last ice age some 15,000 years ago, ...

The glacier, a southern tongue of the great Cordilleran ice sheet that covered western Canada in the last ice age, dammed up the Clark Fork River, creating Glacial Lake Missoula.

Early missionaries in eastern Washington reported stories of a great flood among Yakima and ... and deep ripple marks on the prairies as signs of what is today called the Missoula Flood, ...

The flood warning includes the same Missoula neighborhood that flooded at this time last year and forced the evacuation of dozens of homes. Last, year the river crested at 13.8 feet, ...