REPORT:
Case for periodic, colossal jökulhlaups from Pleistocene glacial Lake Missoula

Table of Contents

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Evidence for Dozens of Floods
• New Evidence
  • Rip-up Clasts
  • Ash Layers
  • Clayey Lacustrine Beds between Flood-Laid Beds
    • Rock Island Bar, Central Washington
    • Horse Lake Canyon, Central Washington
    • Northern Idaho and Washington
  • Other Rhythmic Beds
    • Snake Valley Near Lewiston
    • Other Valleys
  • Regional Relations
• One Graded Bed Per Catastrophic Flood
  • Sparseness of Nonflood Evidence Between Flood Beds
• Hydrology of Lake Missoula and Its Ice Dam
  • Water Budget of Lake
  • Ice-Dam Hydrology
• Age, Correlation, and Number of Floods
  • Relation to Ice Sheet, Ash Layers, and Radiocarbon Dates
  • Relation to Bonneville Flood
  • Number and Periodicity of Missoula Jokulhlaups
• Reply to Critics
  • Central Washington
  • Badger Coulee
  • Walla Walla Valley
  • Regional Correlation
• On Uniformitarian Catastrophes
• Acknowledgments
• References Cited

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