@becketfusik The Missoula Floods carved branching channels directly into solid rock across eastern Washington, inundated the Columbia Gorge and Willamette Valley, and discharged into the Pacific Ocean. That's the kind of water volume required to create the channeled scablands, not gradual erosion but catastrophic flooding on a scale that reshapes entire landscapes. And it wasn't limited to just one region as mega floods occurred along every major ice sheet margin during the Pleistocene across No
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@becketfusik The Missoula Floods carved branching channels directly into solid rock across eastern Washington, inundated the Columbia Gorge and Willamette Valley, and discharged into the Pacific Ocean. That's the kind of water volume required to create the channeled scablands, not gradual erosion but catastrophic flooding on a scale that reshapes entire landscapes. And it wasn't limited to just one region as mega floods occurred along every major ice sheet margin during the Pleistocene across No
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Hurricane Katrina was devastating—but the Lake Missoula floods were on another scale entirely. Modern floods? Measured in millions of cubic feet per second. Missoula? Try 350 million. That’s up to 10 surdrops—the same unit used to measure ocean currents. And it wasn’t minutes or hours… it surged for days. We’re just beginning to grasp the true power of these ancient megafloods. | The Randall Carlson
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Hurricane Katrina was devastating—but the Lake Missoula floods were on another scale entirely. Modern floods? Measured in millions of cubic feet per second. Missoula? Try 350 million. That’s up to 10 surdrops—the same unit used to measure ocean currents. And it wasn’t minutes or hours… it surged for days. We’re just beginning to grasp the true power of these ancient megafloods. | The Randall Carlson
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Want to learn more about the Bonneville Flood? Join Randall Carlson for a six-day tour through Utah and Idaho from May 11th-17th, exploring the remnants of this ancient catastrophe. Discover how the burst of Lake Bonneville’s dam reshaped the land and dive into the powerful forces behind one of North America’s most significant floods. Don’t miss out on this rare opportunity—get your tickets now! https://randallcarlson.com/event/bonneville-megafloods-2025/ Or click the link in bio! | The Randall
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Want to learn more about the Bonneville Flood? Join Randall Carlson for a six-day tour through Utah and Idaho from May 11th-17th, exploring the remnants of this ancient catastrophe. Discover how the burst of Lake Bonneville’s dam reshaped the land and dive into the powerful forces behind one of North America’s most significant floods. Don’t miss out on this rare opportunity—get your tickets now! https://randallcarlson.com/event/bonneville-megafloods-2025/ Or click the link in bio! | The Randall
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The Bonneville Flood, North America’s second-largest documented flood, occurred at the end of the last ice age. Triggered by the drainage of a massive lake covering nearly 100,000 square kilometers and nearly 1,000 feet deep, it discharged at an astonishing rate of 40 million cubic feet per second. Its connection to the Missoula Flood remains a fascinating and controversial topic in geological studies. | The Randall Carlson
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The Bonneville Flood, North America’s second-largest documented flood, occurred at the end of the last ice age. Triggered by the drainage of a massive lake covering nearly 100,000 square kilometers and nearly 1,000 feet deep, it discharged at an astonishing rate of 40 million cubic feet per second. Its connection to the Missoula Flood remains a fascinating and controversial topic in geological studies. | The Randall Carlson
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Lake Bonneville once held trillions of gallons—then unleashed a biblical flood. But how long did it sit at peak level before the breakout? Weeks? Years? Centuries? To sustain that much water, the climate had to be insanely wet. One study found only 3.3% of the lake's water came from glacial melt... Which means massive, persistent rainfall was feeding it. Until something tipped the balance—and 40 million cubic feet per second tore through the land. Still think climate doesn’t shift fast? | The Ra
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Lake Bonneville once held trillions of gallons—then unleashed a biblical flood. But how long did it sit at peak level before the breakout? Weeks? Years? Centuries? To sustain that much water, the climate had to be insanely wet. One study found only 3.3% of the lake's water came from glacial melt... Which means massive, persistent rainfall was feeding it. Until something tipped the balance—and 40 million cubic feet per second tore through the land. Still think climate doesn’t shift fast? | The Ra
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The Bonneville and Missoula floods—two of the most catastrophic events in North American history—are thought to be unrelated. But what if they weren’t? What if they happened together, triggered by a single, greater cause? Coincidence... or convergence? Join Randall Carlson on the Lake Bonneville Megafloods Tour and explore the evidence firsthand. Witness the landscapes shaped by these ancient deluges and uncover the secrets of Earth's past. Reserve your spot now—link in bio! | The Randall Carlso
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The Bonneville and Missoula floods—two of the most catastrophic events in North American history—are thought to be unrelated. But what if they weren’t? What if they happened together, triggered by a single, greater cause? Coincidence... or convergence? Join Randall Carlson on the Lake Bonneville Megafloods Tour and explore the evidence firsthand. Witness the landscapes shaped by these ancient deluges and uncover the secrets of Earth's past. Reserve your spot now—link in bio! | The Randall Carlso
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The Missoula and Bonneville floods are the most famous in North American history—but they may have only been regional expressions of something much bigger. New evidence shows floods with even greater peak discharges once ripped across the continent. This wasn’t just water—it was a continental-scale catastrophe. | The Randall Carlson
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The Missoula and Bonneville floods are the most famous in North American history—but they may have only been regional expressions of something much bigger. New evidence shows floods with even greater peak discharges once ripped across the continent. This wasn’t just water—it was a continental-scale catastrophe. | The Randall Carlson
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When the Missoula floods surged into the Snake River, they backflooded 150 miles upstream, leaving fine silts at the distal reach. At the same time, the Bonneville flood thundered north through Hell’s Canyon, dropping massive boulders at its mouth. At Tammany Bar, the two torrents met —coarse Bonneville gravels overlying Missoula silts —a geological record of cataclysms colliding. | The Randall Carlson
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Mega-floods aren’t mythology, they’re measured. The Bonneville Flood hit ~40 million cubic feet per second. The Missoula floods? Up to 400–800 million cubic feet per second. Water volumes so massive they carved canyons, moved boulders like pebbles, and reshaped whole regions in days. These weren’t rivers. They were planet-altering forces. | The Randall Carlson
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The Bonneville Flood—40 million cubic feet of water per second—raged through Hell’s Canyon for up to 6 months, deepening it into something even more profound than the Grand Canyon. This was no ordinary flood. It was the draining of an inland sea nearly 1,000 feet deep. | The Randall Carlson
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If we could reach the bottom of Bonneville flood sediments... we might find Missoula flood deposits underneath. Mainstream explanation doesn’t connect Channel Scablands damage to the Younger Dryas impact. Claims it happened before.But catastrophic rise events show sudden sea level pulses. That 400-foot rise wasn’t smooth. Meltwater pulse 1A: 14,600 years ago. Meltwater pulse 1B: 11,600 years... the top of the Younger Dryas boundary. Is there evidence linking these megafloods to the Younger Dryas
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In the 1920s, J Harlen Bretz was ridiculed for suggesting a massive flood carved the Pacific Northwest. But he was right. Lake Missoula—held back by ice—burst free, unleashing a torrent that tore through the Columbia River Gorge with tornado-like turbulence, carving canyons in days. What Bretz called a “recessional cataract”… was a fossil of catastrophe. | The Randall Carlson
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In 1969, while standing on the bluffs of the Minnesota River Valley, a striking realization emerged—was this narrow modern river once part of a colossal flood channel? Evidence suggests that the Minnesota River flows through the remnants of a massive glacial outburst, where water from the ancient Lake Agassiz carved an immense valley, leaving behind towering bluffs and scattered boulders. | The Randall Carlson
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DRONE FOOTAGE OF FLOODING IN MISSOULA: Severe weather causes flood watch for Clark Fork river and especially Tower Street in Missoula | NBC Montana
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We talk about the melting ice sheets—but where did all that water actually go? Exploring the Missoula Floods in the 1980s raised a bigger mystery: There are massive, unexplained gaps in the landscape… and nature doesn’t care about our research boundaries. The jet stream moves. The floods come. And the truth? It’s outside the box. | The Randall Carlson
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That strange bend on the Minnesota border isn’t arbitrary. It follows a massive gorge carved by the catastrophic outburst of Glacial Lake Agassiz. What looks like a river today was once a torrent powerful enough to scatter boulders the size of buses across the landscape. The map still remembers the flood. | The Randall Carlson
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Once Cold War walls fell, U.S. scientists gained access to Russian geological records—and found something staggering: the Altai Flood. Catastrophic flows on the same scale as the Missoula Flood—800 million cubic feet per second—swept across Siberia. And the timing? It lines up with the Ice Age melt in North America. One planet. Multiple cataclysms. | The Randall Carlson
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The largest freshwater floods on record weren’t rivers...they were inland oceans. At the end of the last Ice Age, walls of water thousands of feet deep and miles wide swept across the continent. Glacial Lake Missoula alone held more than 2,500 cubic kilometers of water before erupting in cataclysmic outbursts. If a flood of that scale happened today, it would be the most extraordinary event in human history. | The Randall Carlson
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Imagine walls of water, thousands of feet deep, tearing through canyons and reshaping continents. The Bonneville flood drained an inland sea the size of West Virginia. The Missoula flood released torrents that dwarfed the Amazon. These weren’t separate accidents of nature — their paths crossed, their forces combined. Two catastrophes colliding, leaving scars still visible on the land today. | The Randall Carlson
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These massive boulders didn’t roll here by chance. They’re the fingerprints of a cataclysmic water flow, a flood powerful enough to carve canyons and quarry stone in a single event. What we see in desert wadis today mirrors what we see across the world—from Egypt to Idaho—the telltale remnants of Earth's violent hydrologic past. The land remembers. Are we listening? | The Randall Carlson
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Study reveals Missoula Floods impact on past abrupt climate changes
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