Outburst Floods from Glacial Lake Missoula

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Quaternary Research

Volume

22

Publication Date

1984

First Page

289

Last Page

299

Abstract

The Pleistocene outburst floods from glacial Lake Missoula, known as the “Spokane Floods”, released as much as 2184 km3 of water and produced the greatest known floods of the geologic past. A computer simulation model for these floods that is based on physical equations governing the enlargement by water flow of the tunnel penetrating the ice dam is described. The predicted maximum flood discharge lies in the range 2.74 × 106−13.7 × 106 m3 sec−1, lending independent glaciological support to paleohydrologic estimates of maximum discharge.

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