Glacial Lake Missoula was a prehistoric lake, located in Western Montana and created by an ice dam that reach the height of about 2000 feet . The lake measures about 3000 square miles and contained about 2100 cubic kilometers of waters.
After the dam collapsed a large amount of water, about half the volume of Lake Michigan flooded into Western Washington creating tidal waves of record heights, destroying everything in its way and completely changing the physical aspect of the landscape
It is also believe that the flood did not only happen once but as many as 40 or more. R.B. Waitt. Jr first argued for a sequence of multiple flood and 1980 and finally after being able to reconstruct a small scale of the destruction of that Lake Missoula would have cause,his theory was proven acceptable.
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