Superfloods Continue To Generate Heat In Earth Science

Posted by Dale on Apr 04, 2002 at 19:57
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Around 15,000 years ago, as the last ice age was melting down, you didn't want to be standing in Idaho's Clark Fork River Valley. Giant glacial Lake Missoula stretched 174 miles behind an ice dam ready to burst.

When the 2,000-foot-high ice dam did go, the lake surged downstream with a flow ten times greater than the flow from all the world's present rivers combined. The massive flood cut deep canyons, stripped away soils, and carried boulders all the way from Idaho to what is now Portland, Ore. In 48 hours, it transformed the landscape of the Pacific Northwest.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/04/020402075852.htm

A few here already knew this but some others might not.

BTW, in case anyone misses my saccharin soaked repartee with Danny and his devoted love-slave AR, I’ll be gone for a while. I’ll try to check in as often as possible but… Carry on, troops.

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