Posted on 08/07/2021 5:31:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The ancient lake, which no longer exists, covered an area of 580,000 square miles in modern-day southern Manitoba, central Saskatchewan all the way up to the Alberta border.
It's likely that the 'catastrophic meltwater to drain to the Arctic Ocean' occurred over a 6–9 month period during the Younger Dryas, but they are not yet clear if this happened during the beginning of the event.
Using sedimentary evidence, more than 100 valley cross sections, and a model comprised of gradual dam failure with the bedrock's erodibility and the size of the lake, the researchers estimated that 2 million cubic meters of water were discharged every second at the height of the spillage, making it one of the largest floods known to occur on Earth.
For comparison purposes, this is roughly 10 times what the Amazon River spills every second.
Over the span of roughly nine months, approximately 5,000 cubic miles (21,000 cubic kilometers) were drained from the lake, roughly the equivalent of all the Great Lakes combined.
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Very interesting. You can see the horizontal water erosion lines on the sides of the hills (mountains for you East Coast folks) surrounding Missoula Montana from the glacial melt lake that carved out the badlands in Eastern Washington state's Columbia Basin.
Over the span of roughly nine months, approximately 5,000 cubic miles...
12,000 years ago fits in with the legend of Atlantis being destroyed by flood as well as the Biblical flood story. Many cultures around the world have a flood myth.
Every culture has a flood, so was it Noah's Flood?
That’s what happens when glaciers are struck by a large asteroid.
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There are about 130 million square miles of ocean, or 3.6 trillion square feet. And 147 billion cubic feet in a cubic mile.
Take 5,000 cubic miles times 147 billion, then divide by 3.6 trillion and you get..
A headache.
And 2.4 inches, worldwide.
Someone check my math...
I used to live in Lewistown MT the center of the state. In the Snowy Mountains there are fossils of sea shells everywhere. I have one I found myself. To me, that’s incredible.
Interesting!
Why does every event involving water have to be compared to Olympic swimming pools?
It’s a measurement most folks can understand. In America, many things are compared to football fields. Most of the rest of the world uses soccer pitches for the same scalar reason: It’s something nearly everyone is familiar with.
Because backyard swimming pools vary in size.
Glacial Lake Missoula...
Not to mention Lake Bonneville which broke through its earthen dam at Red Rock Canyon SE of Pocatello, ID. Its remnants are now the Great Salt Lake.
There were glacially moderated floods in Alaska too. All of these occurred about 12-15,000 years ago when the ancient peoples were fooling around with primitive SUV’s...
Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes but in Canada directly above and above North Dakota there are 100,000+ lakes and many many larger lakes then all the lakes combined in Minnesota. Glaciers rolled back and forth thru the eons creating the lake beds.
The fresh water Black Sea flooded with salt water around 5600 BC. Probably Noah's Flood.
Did A Comet Hit Earth 12,000 Years Ago?
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