Remnants of the 'great Bonneville flood'

[John Z. Goriup]

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Throughout southern Idaho one encounters evidence of this cataclysmic event about 14,500 years ago. An icedam broke, releasing the roughly eqivalent volume of water contained in Lake Michigan in a northward direction over a period of a few days, forever altering the landscape in the region.

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[stuny]

Very nice.  

The history makes me think of something much more recent.  When I was stationed at Grand Forks AFB, about 15 miles west of Grand Forks, ND, the Red River of the North, which flows northward, would defrost near Fargo (115 miles south) and due to the river still being frozen north of Grand Forks, would flood all the fancy homes along the river in Grand forks.  Every year.  And our base provided volunteers to help with the sand bagging. Every year.

[fotografr]

Very nice, but I would say "temporarily altering the landscape." Another 14,500 years and you wouldn't even recognize the place.