Days #613-619 of Our Epic Trip

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We saw the aftereffects of the Ice Age Mega Floods and enjoyed the beauty of the Columbia River. Click link below ⬇️

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Lake Agassiz (Paleogeography 🦕)

Lake Agassiz was a large proglacial lake that existed in central North America during the late Pleistocene, fed by meltwater from the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet at the end of the last glacial period. At its peak, the lake's area was larger than all of the modern Great Lakes combined. It eventually drained into what is now Hud...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Agassiz

#LakeAgassiz #Megafloods #YoungerDryas #ShrunkenLakes #LakesOfOntario #Paleogeography

An insightful video on #megafloods by Laurent Pfister: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd9bfrRM5CU

#science #hydrology #floods #Luxembourg

Dear @BBCWorld

We would have megafloods anyhow. But they used to be once every many-decades. Now they'll be once every few-decades, or as Daniel Swain (https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/person/daniel-swain/) put it (paraphrased):
What used to be something the average Californian saw once in their lifetime, if at all, will become of something we see once in the life of a home #mortgage.

#ClimateChange will bring #megafloods to #California
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240207-climate-change-will-bring-a-megaflood-to-california

#flood #megaflood

Lake Agassiz (Paleogeography 🦕)

Lake Agassiz was a large proglacial lake that existed in central North America during late Pleistocene, fed by meltwater from the retreating Laurentide Ice Sheet at the end of the last glacial period. At its peak, the lake's area was larger than all of the modern Great Lakes combined.First postulated in 1823 by William H. Keating,...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Agassiz

#LakeAgassiz #Megafloods #YoungerDryas #ShrunkenLakes #LakesOfOntario #Paleogeography