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Earth’s biggest floods
Uncovering geological evidence for the world’s largest flood events
About
Join expert geologists and geomorphologists for a detective’s investigation into the clues and evidence for massive floods that have occurred around the world. We’ll look at the Missoula floods and other ice dam failures, prominent lake basin overflows, and landslide dam failures that have scoured immense canyons and reshaped the surface of the planet. We’ll also address how an examination of the evidence for the world’s largest floods can be scaled down to help engineers and flood modellers interpret high water marks and other clues during site surveys in the field.
Presenters
Chris Goodell
Kleinschmidt Associates
David Montgomery
University of Washington
Scott Burns
Portland State University
Panel Members
Stanford Gibson
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Hydrologic Engineering Center
Krey Price
International Water Training Institute
Jim O'Connor
U.S. Geological Survey, Portland, Oregon