The Missoula Megaflood
The enormous ice-age flood in the northwestern United States
Rivers and Floods
The largest river in the world today, by discharge rates, is the Amazon River in South America. On average, the rate of water flowing from the mouth of the Amazon River is 224,000 m3/s: enough to fill 85 Olympic-sized swimming pools every second. That amount of water seems unfathomable, though is just another reminder of the amazing pow…
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