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Glacial Lake Columbia

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Glacial Lake Columbia was the lake formed on the ice-dammed Columbia River behind the Okanogan lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet when the lobe covered of the Waterville Plateau west of Grand Coulee in central Washington state during the Wisconsin glaciation. [1]

15 relations: Channeled Scablands, Clark Fork River, Columbia River, Cordilleran Ice Sheet, Dry Falls, Foster Coulee, Grand Coulee, Grand Coulee Dam, Lake Missoula, Missoula Floods, Moses Coulee, Palouse Falls, Varve, Washington (state), Wisconsin glaciation.

Channeled Scablands

The Channeled Scablands are a relatively barren and soil-free region of interconnected relict and dry flood channels, coulees and cataracts eroded through Palouse loess and into typically flat-lying basalt flows by cataclysmic floods within eastern part of the U.S. state of Washington.

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Clark Fork River

The Clark Fork, or the Clark Fork of the Columbia River, is a river in the U.S. states of Montana and Idaho, approximately long.

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Columbia River

The Columbia River is the largest river in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

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Cordilleran Ice Sheet

The Cordilleran ice sheet was a major ice sheet that periodically covered large parts of North America during glacial periods over the last ~2.6 million years.

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Dry Falls

Dry Falls is a, 5.5 km in width, scalloped precipice with four major alcoves, in central Washington scablands.

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Foster Coulee

Foster Coulee is a coulee in Douglas County, Washington.

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Grand Coulee

The Grand Coulee is an ancient river bed in the U.S. state of Washington.

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Grand Coulee Dam

Grand Coulee Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, built to produce hydroelectric power and provide irrigation water.

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Lake Missoula

Lake Missoula was a prehistoric proglacial lake in western Montana that existed periodically at the end of the last ice age between 15,000 and 13,000 years ago.

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Missoula Floods

The Missoula Floods (also known as the Spokane Floods or the Bretz Floods) refer to the cataclysmic floods that swept periodically across eastern Washington and down the Columbia River Gorge at the end of the last ice age.

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Moses Coulee

Moses Coulee is a canyon in the Waterville plateau region of Douglas County, Washington.

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Palouse Falls

The Palouse Falls lies on the Palouse River, about upstream of the confluence with the Snake River in southeast Washington, United States.

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Varve

A varve is an annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Wisconsin glaciation

The Wisconsin Glacial Episode, also called the Wisconsinan glaciation, was the most recent glacial period of the North American ice sheet complex.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial_Lake_Columbia

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