The great continental ice sheets were melting very fast in the time of Glacial Lake Missoula, shedding great torrents of meltwater every summer, raising sea level an average of approximately 100 ...
When Glacial Lake Missoula's ice dam shattered ... Here, an old homestead sits in the bottom of a coulee within the "scablands," the term early settlers gave to the region's flood-scoured lands.