{"id":1681,"date":"2011-10-06T20:11:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T20:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=1681"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:40:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T09:40:29","slug":"oct-6-2011-megafloods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=1681","title":{"rendered":"Oct 6 2011: Megafloods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/chubasco.hwr.arizona.edu\/hwr-drupal\/?q=node\/30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Prof. Victor Baker<\/a><br \/>\nDepartment of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><br \/>\nMegafloods (terrestrial water flows with discharges exceeding one<br \/>\nmillion cubic meters per second) are the largest known freshwater<br \/>\nfloods, with flows comparable in scale to (though of shorter duration<br \/>\nthan) ocean currents. Although there are no modern examples of<br \/>\nmegafloods, such flows occurred during major periods of Earth&#8217;s<br \/>\nglaciation and during past epochs on Mars. A prominent example is the<br \/>\npaleoflooding caused by late Pleistocene outbursts from Glacial Lake<br \/>\nMissoula, which formed when the Purcell Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice<br \/>\nSheet extended south from British Columbia to the basin of modern Pend<br \/>\nOreille Lake in northern Idaho.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reading:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Baker08.pdf'>Baker, 2008<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Prof. Victor Baker Department of Hydrology and Water Resources, University of Arizona Abstract: Megafloods (terrestrial water flows with discharges exceeding one million cubic meters per second) are the largest known freshwater floods, with flows comparable in scale to (though of shorter duration than) ocean currents. Although there are no modern examples of megafloods, such &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/?p=1681\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oct 6 2011: Megafloods&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colloquia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13241,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions\/13241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/planets.ucla.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}