Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge is located approximately a half hour west of Spokane, Washington, the second largest c ...

And Lake Missoula wasn't the only ice-dammed lake. One in northern Washington, Glacial Lake Columbia, formed when ice blocked the Columbia and, for a time, sent it down Grand Coulee — the water ...

As the lake filled, the water began to lift the glacier, carving a 25-kilometer-long tunnel beneath the ice, through which the water eventually burst into the world's largest fjord, Scoresby Sound.

For the first time, scientists have observed the release of a massive glacial lake outburst in East Greenland, where more than 3,000 billion liters of meltwater were unleashed in just weeks. This ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, Lake Missoula had an outburst that was 2,500 times larger than the recent Catalina event. To understand these massive forces, we must study the largest outbursts ...

Feb. 1—WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute will host a talk on a pioneer in the geology of the Columbia Basin, according to an announcement from ...

This type of flooding has been happening in Juneau since 2011. It occurs when thinning ice above the terminus of Mendenhall Glacier creates an ice dam in an area called Suicide Basin, which traps ...

THOMPSON FALLS, Mont. — Once home to an ancient ice dam holding back Glacial Lake Missoula, a scenic stretch of highway is now dotted with historic bridges and modern-day dams. In this Road ...

But the scientific community gradually began to agree that an ice dam holding back the waters of Glacial Lake Missoula in present day Western Montana 18,000 to 15,000 years ago resulted in huge ...

A giant ice-age lake— Glacial Lake Missoula —that formed when the Cordilleran ice sheet progressed south and blocked the Clark Fork river valley, forming a dam of ice 2,000 feet high.