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==Glacial Lake Missoula== |
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The Cordilleran ice sheet also blocked the [[Clark Fork River]] and created [[Glacial Lake Missoula]], rising behind a {{ft to m|2000}} high ice dam in flooded valleys of western Montana. Over 2000 years the ice dam periodically failed, releasing approximately 40-high-volume [[Missoula Floods]] of water down the Columbia River drainage, passing through glacial Lake Columbia. The largest flood is estimated to be the initial flood at 2,500 km<sup>3</sup> (600 mi<sup>3</sup>), with subsequent floods occurring at roughly 20 to 80 year intervals.<ref name=Hendy>{{Cite journal | last = Hendy | first = Ingrid | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = A fresh perspective on the Cordilleran Ice Sheet | journal = Geology | volume = 37 | issue = | pages = 464-467 | publisher = The Geological Society of America | location = | date = 2009 | url = http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/37/1/95.full | issn = | doi =10.1130/focus012009.110.1130/0091-7613(1984)12<464:PFFGLM>2.0.CO;2 | id = | accessdate = 14 Nov 2009}}</ref> Since Lake Columbia was impounded behind the Okanogan lobe, which rose to {{m to ft|1300}}, this lobe effectively blocked the normal course of the Columbia River, blocking the Missoula Floods and diverting water to flow across much of eastern Washington state. The erosion |
The Cordilleran ice sheet also blocked the [[Clark Fork River]] and created [[Glacial Lake Missoula]], rising behind a {{ft to m|2000}} high ice dam in flooded valleys of western Montana. Over 2000 years the ice dam periodically failed, releasing approximately 40-high-volume [[Missoula Floods]] of water down the Columbia River drainage, passing through glacial Lake Columbia. The largest flood is estimated to be the initial flood at 2,500 km<sup>3</sup> (600 mi<sup>3</sup>), with subsequent floods occurring at roughly 20 to 80 year intervals.<ref name=Hendy>{{Cite journal | last = Hendy | first = Ingrid | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = A fresh perspective on the Cordilleran Ice Sheet | journal = Geology | volume = 37 | issue = | pages = 464-467 | publisher = The Geological Society of America | location = | date = 2009 | url = http://geology.gsapubs.org/content/37/1/95.full | issn = | doi =10.1130/focus012009.110.1130/0091-7613(1984)12<464:PFFGLM>2.0.CO;2 | id = | accessdate = 14 Nov 2009}}</ref> Since Lake Columbia was impounded behind the Okanogan lobe, which rose to {{m to ft|1300}}, this lobe effectively blocked the normal course of the Columbia River, blocking the Missoula Floods and diverting water to flow across much of eastern Washington state. The erosion from the floods created the Grand Coulee as well as the [[Dry Falls]], [[Palouse Falls]], and the [[Channeled Scablands]] features of eastern Washington state.<ref name=Atwater/> |
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==Flood deposits== |
==Flood deposits== |
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Glacial Lake Columbia was the lake formed on the ice-dammed Columbia River behind the Okanogan lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet when the lobe covered Vorlage:Mi2 to km2 of the Waterville Plateau west of Grand Coulee in central Washington state during the Wisconsin glaciation.[1] Lake Columbia was a substantially larger version of the modern-day lake behind the Grand Coulee Dam. Lake Columbia's overflow – the diverted Columbia River – drained first through Moses Coulee and as the ice dam grew, later through the Grand Coulee.[2][3]
Glacial Lake Missoula
The Cordilleran ice sheet also blocked the Clark Fork River and created Glacial Lake Missoula, rising behind a Vorlage:Ft to m high ice dam in flooded valleys of western Montana. Over 2000 years the ice dam periodically failed, releasing approximately 40-high-volume Missoula Floods of water down the Columbia River drainage, passing through glacial Lake Columbia. The largest flood is estimated to be the initial flood at 2,500 km3 (600 mi3), with subsequent floods occurring at roughly 20 to 80 year intervals.[4] Since Lake Columbia was impounded behind the Okanogan lobe, which rose to Vorlage:M to ft, this lobe effectively blocked the normal course of the Columbia River, blocking the Missoula Floods and diverting water to flow across much of eastern Washington state. The erosion from the floods created the Grand Coulee as well as the Dry Falls, Palouse Falls, and the Channeled Scablands features of eastern Washington state.[3]
Flood deposits
Flood beds on the Sanpoil arm of glacial Lake Columbia show episodic flood deposits as well as deposit grading and rhythmical repetition. Since Glacial Lake Columbia remained filled between Missoula floods, annual deposits (varves) can be observed between the Missoula flood deposits, they help to establish the periodicity of these major floods. The flood deposits can be distinguished from annually-deposited varves by both their thickness and the presence of materials foreign to the immediate drainage. Atwater reports from 35 to 55 annual varves between flood deposits in Lake Columbia, supporting a period of 35 to 55 years between ice dam failures.[3]
References
Vorlage:Ice Age Floods
Vorlage:Pleistocene Lakes and Seas
- ↑ The Wisconsin glaciation began about 80,000 years ago and ended around 10,000 years ago.
- ↑ Vorlage:Citation
- ↑ a b c Brian F. Atwater: Periodic floods from glacial Lake Missoula into the Sanpoil arm from of glacial Lake Columbia, northeastern Washington. In: Geology. 12. Jahrgang. The Geological Society of America, 1984, S. 464–467, doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1984)12<464:PFFGLM>2.0.CO;2.
- ↑ Ingrid Hendy: A fresh perspective on the Cordilleran Ice Sheet. In: Geology. 37. Jahrgang. The Geological Society of America, 2009, S. 464–467, doi:10.1130/focus012009.110.1130/0091-7613(1984)12<464:PFFGLM>2.0.CO;2 (gsapubs.org [abgerufen am 14. November 2009]).