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  • Thumbnail for Glacial lake outburst flood
    A glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) is a type of outburst flood caused by the failure of a dam containing a glacial lake. An event similar to a GLOF,...
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  • large quantity of water. During the last deglaciation, numerous glacial lake outburst floods were caused by the collapse of either ice sheets or glaciers...
    19 KB (2,440 words) - 04:57, 15 April 2024
  • Rishiganga river and its valley following a landslide, avalanche or glacial lake outburst flood of the Nanda Devi glacier. The Nanda Devi Sanctuary within...
    13 KB (1,463 words) - 08:14, 16 September 2024
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    along the river and its gorge following a landslide, avalanche or glacial lake outburst flood. Flash flood on February 7 in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand...
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    pronunciation: [ˈjœːkʏl̥ˌl̥œyp] pronunciation) (literally "glacial run") is a type of glacial outburst flood. It is an Icelandic term that has been adopted...
    23 KB (2,695 words) - 07:48, 26 August 2024
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    floods of the last ice age Glacial lake outburst flood – Type of outburst flood that occurs when the dam containing a glacial lake fails Giant current ripples –...
    23 KB (2,487 words) - 03:13, 9 May 2024
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    Joshimath, also known as Jyotirmath, is a town and a municipal board in Chamoli District in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Located at a height of 6,150...
    21 KB (1,944 words) - 01:01, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2021 Uttarakhand flood
    February, releasing the water trapped behind the ice, and causing a glacial lake outburst flood. But this was shown to be incorrect as satellite images showed...
    23 KB (2,332 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2024
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    Altai flood (category Glacial lake outburst floods)
    River in the Altai Republic at the end of the last ice age. These glacial lake outburst floods were the result of periodic sudden ruptures of ice dams like...
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    2023 Sikkim flash floods (category Glacial lake outburst floods)
    rains caused the glacial South Lhonak lake in Sikkim, a state in northeastern India, to breach its banks, causing a glacial lake outburst flood. The flood...
    16 KB (1,276 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2024
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    2022. The glaciers on Mount Rainier can generate mudflows through glacial outburst floods not associated with an eruption. The South Tahoma Glacier generated...
    96 KB (9,085 words) - 19:19, 27 September 2024
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    June 2024. "Glacial outburst flood in Múlakvísl". Icelandic Weather Office. 29 July 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2024. "Small glacial outburst floods around...
    41 KB (2,428 words) - 07:49, 26 August 2024
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    Coulee in Washington state Glacial lake outburst flood – Type of outburst flood that occurs when the dam containing a glacial lake fails Drumheller Channels...
    16 KB (1,818 words) - 16:32, 17 June 2024
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    larger Grand Coulee. This water channel is now dry, but during glacial periods, large outburst floods with discharges greater than 600,000 m3/s (21,000,000 cu ft/s)...
    14 KB (1,547 words) - 15:34, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Genesis flood narrative
    prehistoric cataclysmic flooding from the Altai Mountains is that several glacial lake outburst floods from the Altai Mountains caused massive flooding along the...
    64 KB (6,858 words) - 20:34, 19 August 2024
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    St. Helens 1980 eruption. These eruptions have produced very large glacial outburst floods. Several smaller (minor) events measuring VEI-1 and below have...
    59 KB (3,373 words) - 00:17, 27 September 2024
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    covered glaciers. This increase in glacial lake formation also indicates an increase in occurrence of glacial lake outburst flood events caused by damming...
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    as Glacial Lake Missoula and Glacial Lake Wisconsin in the United States, the sudden rupturing of the supporting dam caused glacial lake outburst floods...
    11 KB (1,151 words) - 19:38, 7 August 2023
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    jökulhlaup is a glacial outburst flood. Jökulhlaup is an Icelandic word, and in Iceland many glacial outburst floods are triggered by sub-glacial volcanic eruptions...
    22 KB (2,509 words) - 09:43, 9 July 2024
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    Considerable melting of glacial ice can create massive lahars and glacial outburst floods known as jökulhlaups. Three forms of glaciovolcanism are known...
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