Missoula floods

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The Missoula floods were a series of cataclysmic Ice Age glacial outburst floods that repeatedly swept across the Pacific Northwest, dramatically reshaping the landscape of what is now Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.

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Generate an image of the Missoula floods (The Missoula floods were a series of cataclysmic Ice Age glacial outburst floods that repeatedly swept across the Pacific Northwest, dramatically reshaping the landscape of what is now Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana.)

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cataclysmic flood event ⓘ
glacial lake outburst flood ⓘ
paleoflood ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Bretz floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods

Missoula Flood ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods

Spokane Floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
associatedWith Cordilleran Ice Sheet ⓘ
Glacial Lake Columbia ⓘ
Lake Lewis ⓘ
cause failure of the ice dam of Glacial Lake Missoula ⓘ
repeated ice-dam collapses on the Clark Fork River ⓘ
created coulees ⓘ
dry falls ⓘ
giant current ripples ⓘ
hanging valleys ⓘ
large gravel bars ⓘ
pothole cataracts ⓘ
deposited erratic boulders transported on icebergs ⓘ
thick layers of silt in the Willamette Valley ⓘ
endTime approximately 13,000 years ago ⓘ
evidenceFoundIn Columbia River Gorge ⓘ
eastern Washington ⓘ
northern Idaho ⓘ
western Montana ⓘ
hasOrigin Clark Fork River valley ⓘ
Glacial Lake Missoula ⓘ
linked to: Lake Missoula basin
influenced regional drainage patterns of the Columbia River system ⓘ
soil distribution in eastern Washington and Oregon ⓘ
maximumDischarge on the order of 10 million cubic meters per second ⓘ
maximumLakeDepth over 600 meters at the ice dam ⓘ
maximumLakeVolume approximately 2,100 cubic kilometers ⓘ
partOf Quaternary glacial history of North America ⓘ
recognizedAs one of the largest known freshwater floods on Earth ⓘ
recurrence dozens of separate flood events ⓘ
possibly more than 40 major floods ⓘ
reshaped Channeled Scablands ⓘ
Columbia River Gorge ⓘ
Snake River Plain features ⓘ
Spokane River valley ⓘ
linked to: Spokane River

Willamette Valley ⓘ
startTime approximately 18,000 years ago ⓘ
studiedBy J Harlen Bretz ⓘ
timePeriod Late Wisconsin glaciation ⓘ
Pleistocene epoch ⓘ
tookPlaceIn Idaho ⓘ
Montana ⓘ
Oregon ⓘ
Pacific Northwest ⓘ
United States ⓘ
Washington (state) ⓘ
linked to: Washington

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Columbia Plateau → erodedBy → Missoula floods ⓘ
Columbia National Wildlife Refuge → formedByGeologicalProcess → Missoula Floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Missoula floods → alsoKnownAs → Missoula Flood ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Missoula floods → alsoKnownAs → Spokane Floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Missoula floods → alsoKnownAs → Bretz floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Channeled Scablands → formedBy → Missoula Floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Channeled Scablands → formedBy → Ice Age floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Channeled Scablands → associatedWith → Spokane Floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Snake River Canyon → formedByProcess → catastrophic Pleistocene flooding (Bonneville Flood) ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Lake Missoula basin → responsibleFor → Missoula Floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Lake Missoula basin → associatedWith → Missoula Floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Lake Missoula basin → erodedBy → Missoula Floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Dry Falls → formedBy → Missoula Floods ⓘ
subject linked to: dry falls
linked to: Missoula floods
Lake Lewis → formedBy → Missoula floods ⓘ
Lake Lewis → formedBy → Glacial Lake Missoula outburst floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
J Harlen Bretz → knownFor → Missoula Floods hypothesis ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Dry Falls → formedBy → Missoula Floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Palouse Falls → formedBy → Missoula Floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Glacial Lake Columbia → associatedWith → Missoula Floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Moses Coulee → formedBy → Missoula floods ⓘ
Crab Creek coulee → formedBy → Ice Age floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Crab Creek coulee → evidenceFor → Missoula-style floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Potholes Coulee → formedBy → Missoula Floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Potholes Coulee → formedBy → Ice Age floods ⓘ
linked to: Missoula floods
Frenchman Coulee → formedBy → Missoula Floods ⓘ
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