Palaeogeographical reconstruction and hydrology of glacial Lake Purcell during MIS 2 and its potential impact on the Channeled Scabland, USA

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: Peters, Jared L., Brennand, Tracy A.
• Other Authors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bor.12434; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fbor.12434; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/bor.12434; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/bor.12434

Large, ice‐marginal lakes that were impounded by the maximally extended Cordilleran Ice Sheet ( CIS ) provided source waters for the extraordinarily large floods that formed the Channeled Scabland of Washington and Idaho, USA . However, flood flows that drained CIS meltwater and contributed to lands...