Glacial Lake Missoula floods

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Glacial_Lake_Missoula_floods

GPTKB entity

Statements (44)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	catastrophic flood event
gptkbp:affectedArea	gptkb:Columbia_River_Gorge gptkb:Idaho gptkb:Montana gptkb:Oregon gptkb:Pacific_Northwest gptkb:Willamette_Valley Eastern Washington
gptkbp:allows	geological community (by 1960s)
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Missoula_Floods
gptkbp:causedBy	failure of ice dam
gptkbp:created	gptkb:Dry_Falls gptkb:Giant_current_ripples gptkb:Lake_Lewis gptkb:Palouse_Falls Glacial erratics in Willamette Valley
gptkbp:deposited	Willamette Valley silt
gptkbp:evidence	gptkb:Portland,_Oregon gptkb:Wallula_Gap gptkb:Missoula,_Montana Lake Pend Oreille
gptkbp:featuredIn	National Park Service educational materials PBS NOVA documentary
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Glacial Lake Missoula floods
gptkbp:iceDamLocatedAt	gptkb:Clark_Fork_River
gptkbp:initiallyControversial	true
gptkbp:maximumLakeDepth	over 600 meters
gptkbp:maximumLakeVolume	2,100 cubic kilometers
gptkbp:maximumWaterFlow	10 million cubic meters per second
gptkbp:numberOfEvents	at least 40
gptkbp:occurredIn	gptkb:Pleistocene_epoch
gptkbp:originatedIn	gptkb:Glacial_Lake_Missoula
gptkbp:proposedBy	1923
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:Glacial_Lake_Columbia gptkb:Cordilleran_Ice_Sheet Bonneville Flood
gptkbp:scoured	gptkb:Channeled_Scablands
gptkbp:significance	major geological event in North America shaped landscape of Pacific Northwest
gptkbp:studiedBy	gptkb:J_Harlen_Bretz
gptkbp:UNESCO_tentative_list	gptkb:Channeled_Scablands
gptkbp:usedBetween	15,000 and 13,000 years ago
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Missoula_River
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7