Scientists have, for the first time, observed a massive glacial lake outburst in East Greenland, releasing over 3,000 billion ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, Lake Missoula had an outburst that was ... "In this case, the energy released by the glacier flood was equivalent to the output of the world's largest nuclear ...

Geologists believe these erratics arrived inside icebergs caught in a Glacial Lake Missoula flood. When the bergs grounded and melted here, the rocks were left high and dry, hundreds of miles from ...

Glacial Lake Missoula was metastable and its ice dam released episodic ... Missoula Floods also occurred prior to the well-documented last-glacial episode of flooding. Luminescence dating of loess ...

Studying the shape of Suicide Basin and how it changes could give researchers a better sense of how much water could be released each year, and potentially how quickly.

The goal is to produce tools that can better predict future outburst floods at Juneau's landmark glacier and elsewhere.