The flood carved a channel up to 2 miles wide, which today is the site of the Little River in Allen County, Indiana.
These floods carved the canyons below Mahood Falls and Canim Falls.
At the end of the last ice age approximately 10,000 years ago, massive floods from the melting glacial ice carved deep canyons into the underlying plateau-capping lava flows.
The flood carved a large bedrock-floored valley down the length of the Channel, leaving behind streamlined islands and longitudinal erosional grooves characteristic of catastrophic megaflood events.
The later floods carved the channels south of Nilokeras Scopulus and may not have strongly influenced development of the scarp.
The Viking orbiters revealed that large floods of water carved deep valleys, eroded grooves into bedrock, and traveled thousands of kilometers.
They showed that floods of water carved deep valleys, eroded grooves into bedrock, and traveled thousands of kilometers.
My natural aversion to the vehicle disappears when we start zinging along, going exhilaratingly fast, miles up the arroyos - rivers of sand, the dry gulches that flash floods carve into the hills.
Originally, geologists believed the Grand Coulee was formed by a glacier diverting the Columbia River but it was revealed in the mid-late 20th century that massive floods from Lake Missoula carved most of the gorge.
As well as destroying the isthmus that connected Britain to continental Europe, the flood carved a large bedrock-floored valley down the length of the English Channel, leaving behind streamlined islands and longitudinal erosional grooves characteristic of catastrophic megaflood events.