In the oral histories of Native American tribes living in what is now known as North West America, there are multiple references to immense floods affecting the region. It is thought that these ...

As ice sheets began melting at the end of the last ice age, a series of cataclysmic floods called the Missoula megafloods scoured the landscape of eastern Washington, carving long, deep channels and ...

Enormous volumes of floodwater from the Missoula megafloods once poured over Dry Falls, which stretches 3.5 miles wide and drops 400 feet to a plunge pool now fed by groundwater. Photo by Tamara Pico.

Apocalyptic floods unleashed in the US at the end of the last ice age came about as Earth’s crust buckled under the weight of ice, researchers have found. The Missoula megafloods carved deep channels ...

Some of the largest floods in earth history drained through the Columbia River during Pleistocene glacial periods (Baker, 2009). These events are known as the Missoula Floods or the Scabland Floods.

Richard Waitt, who holds a doctorate in geology from the University of Washington, will give a lecture at the next Lake Lewis Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the ...

Enormous volumes of floodwater from the Missoula megafloods once poured over Dry Falls in Washington state, which stretches 3.5 miles wide and drops 400 feet to a plunge pool now fed by groundwater ...