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A terse line from a survey notebook, and the flood evidence it set down.
Mapping ice sheet margins is critical for understanding the timing and extent of glacial lake formation. Modern cosmogenic dating and LiDAR surveys continue to refine the ice sheet chronology in the Pacific Northwest.
Researchers studying Pacific Northwest ice sheet margins mapped the extent of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, whose advance and retreat controlled the damming of Glacial Lake Missoula and the release of the catastrophic floods.
Flood-extent overlay shows the maximum reach of the Missoula Floods.
One of more than 1,800 surveyed sites. Plotted together, the field record is the map that proved the flood.
View on the interactive map Cinematic timeline · 3D flood · every captured siteA panorama from the spot the entry describes, looking out the way the surveyor saw it.
From the air, the feature in the note reads as part of the larger flood landscape it belongs to.
A photogrammetry model of a key specimen at the site, the evidence the line of notes rests on.