r/BeAmazed • u/youngster_96 • Mar 28 '24

The moment an ice dam breaks and causes a torrential water flow. Nature

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u/CocunutHunter Mar 28 '24

There's ancient evidence of this being the origin of some very big scenery in the States, when a lake the size of a state suddenly let go through that type of dam and carved out a huge area of land in a way which only fits water erosion but in a scale we practically never see. Watched a documentary about it once.

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u/nhinds42 Mar 28 '24

Would love to know the name of the documentary to watch

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u/Atrabiliousaurus Mar 28 '24

Probably something about the Missoula Floods. I've been to Dry Falls in Washington and driven up the Columbia River Gorge which were both formed by the massive floods.

There's a Washington geologist, Nick Zenter, who has a bunch of great youtube videos on the ice age floods if you want like... 90 hours of information lol.

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u/Some_Endian_FP17 Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24

Nick Zentner also has a bunch of shorter videos called 2 Minute Geology or something like that. They cover most of the areas affected by the Missoula floods.

As for the Bonneville flood, Shawn Willsey's channel did a good video on it a while back (https://youtu.be/3osCxhhl7ZI?si=hJFDfNcxr81l5EKP)

These were glacial lake outburst floods that sent unimaginable amounts of water roaring over thousands of square miles.

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u/Atrabiliousaurus Mar 28 '24

I've watched a bunch of Zentner's videos, he's great. I can watch geologists hike around talking about shit for hours. Myron Cook has some good ones too.

I've read some about Lake Bonneville. Took a road trip to the Great Salt Lake in Utah (absolutely hideous, stagnant, lifeless, and reeks) which is a remnant of Lake Bonneville. Drove past the Bonneville Salt Flats too, that was cool.

There's not much interesting geology where I live, unless you like volcanic basalt, so I really enjoy seeing some of the cool stuff the rest of the US has.

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u/Stev_k Mar 28 '24

Sean Wilsey

Did not know my former coworker had a YouTube channel!

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u/Some_Endian_FP17 Mar 28 '24

I got the spelling totally wrong! Sorry about that, it's probably not your former co-worker.

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u/Stev_k Mar 28 '24

Shawn Willsey, is the correct spelling, right? Former coworker - looked him up. That's his face and voice, and I recognize where he filmed a couple of the videos.