Geologic formation could hold clues to melting glacier floodwaters
Posted by Oceanography News -- ScienceDaily on 23 December, 2015
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Geologists investigating an unusual landform in the Wabash River Valley in southern Illinois expected to find seismic origins, but instead found the aftermath of rushing floodwaters from melting Midwestern glaciers after the last ice age. The finding could give clues to how floodwaters may behave as glacier melt increases today in places like Greenland and Iceland....