[Rockhounds] Have we underestimated the West’s super-floods?

[Paul]

Note: Vic Baker is a well known hydrologist and expert

in the Missoula / Spokane megafloods and paleovalleys

and paleochannels on Mars.


Have we underestimated the West’s super-floods?

Scientists warn that enormous floods may be more

likely than we thought — and the Oroville Dam and

others weren’t built to withstand them.

Krista Langlois, High Country News, Feb. 28, 2017

http://www.hcn.org/issues/49.6/copy-have-we-underestimated-how-often-super-floods-pound-the-west

Episode 62: Flood Risks in the Southwest, Arizona

Public Media, Jan. 6, 2017

https://radio.azpm.org/p/radio-azscience/2017/1/6/105132-episode-62-flood-risks-in-the-southwest/

http://radio.devel.azpm.org/p/radio-azscience/2017/1/10/57452-episode-62-soft-as-a-rock-tectonic-stretching-of-the-earths-crust/

Yours,

Paul H.