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The Scablands were terraformed by a series of GLOFs (Glacial lake outburst flood) like this when deglaciation started at the end of the last ice age. Just imagi
by haunter 2mo ago
The Scablands were terraformed by a series of GLOFs (Glacial lake outburst flood) like this when deglaciation started at the end of the last ice age. Just imagine it on a thousand times bigger scale
>During the last deglaciation that followed the end of the Last Glacial Maximum, geologists estimate that a cycle of flooding and reformation of the lake lasted an average of 55 years and that the floods occurred dozens of times over the 2,000 years between 15,000 and 13,000 years ago. U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist Jim O'Connor and Spain's Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales scientist Gerardo Benito have found evidence of at least twenty-five massive floods, the largest discharging about 10 cubic kilometers per hour (2.7 million m³/s, 13 times that of the Amazon River).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channeled_Scablands https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channeled_Scablands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods
Also it's interesting if you start reading about Native American flood stories, these were not just tales or legends but telling actual historic events that the ancestors experienced.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods#Early_flood_stories_and_postulates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods#Early_flood_st...
- oldsklgdfth 2mo agoThere is some footage on youtube[0] that provides an aerial view and some perspective on the scale of this thing. From rock climbing, I have a sense of erosion features and their scale. Turbulent flow can carve out huecos in sandstone. They look like someone used a 2ft ice cream scooper on the rock. Now trying to scale up that model to the size of scablands is hard to wrap my head around. This is one of the few interesting things I've learn from the rogan podcast. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RopVmgqbt20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RopVmgqbt20