Lake Missoula

A lake known as Lake Missoula, which was as large as some of the Great Lakes, formed in northeastern Washington, northern Idaho, and northwestern Montana.

Wired Top Stories Brian Romans 2011

Scientists say Lake Missoula, which is up to 2,100 feet deep in places, formed behind a huge ice dam stretching from what is now western Montana to eastern Washington.

cbs4denver.com 2010

Scientists say Lake Missoula, which is up to 2,100 feet deep in places, formed behind a huge ice dam stretching from what is now western Montana to eastern Washington.

The Seattle Times 2010

Scientists say Lake Missoula, which is up to 2,100 feet deep in places, formed behind a huge ice dam stretching from what is now western Montana to eastern Washington.

cbs4denver.com 2010

So, yes, there are geological features that invoke catastrophic causes like the Lake Missoula floods that produced the Channelled Scablands but there are also geological features like the Grand Canyon produced by the Colorado River that invoke slow, gradual processes for their formation.

Delicate Arch - The Panda's Thumb 2009

So, yes, there are geological features that invoke catastrophic causes like the Lake Missoula floods that produced the Channelled Scablands but there are also geological features like the Grand Canyon produced by the Colorado River that invoke slow, gradual processes for their formation.

Delicate Arch - The Panda's Thumb 2009

Decades later Bretz “found out where all the water came from,” and it turned out to be ancient Lake Missoula filled with melted ice from the last ice age.

Mann on Splices: the Case of Crowley and Lowery « Climate Audit 2005

It can be assumed that millions of westslope cutthroat trout would have flushed out from Lake Missoula with each failure of the ice dam.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

The distribution of the westslope cutthroat trout in the eastern slope of the Cascade drainages and in the John Day River drainage is likely associated with the glacial-era Lake Missoula and the many failures of its ice dam that sent torrential floods of enormous magnitude across eastern Washington.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

During the last glacial period, Lake Missoula filled and burst through its ice dam some 40 times or more, scouring eastern Washington to create what is called the channeled scablands.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002