A Flood Carved The Western Landscape, This is the Proof | The Big Picture Ep 9
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In this episode of The Big Picture, Randall Carlson and Becket dive deep into the cataclysmic floods that reshaped the American West. From the collapse of Lake Bonneville to the massive Missoula Floods, these ancient events weren’t just natural disasters — they were earth-sculpting, climate-shifting forces that modern science is only beginning to fully understand.
Carlson walks us through the geologic evidence left behind: carved canyons, scablands, flood basalts, and sediment layers that point to sudden, high-energy hydrologic events — not slow, gradual change.
What triggered these floods? Earthquakes? Glacial dam failures? Something else entirely?
This episode connects geology, climate cycles, and catastrophe theory in a way that challenges traditional models and reveals Earth’s story on a much grander scale.
Chapters
00:00 Exploring the Bonneville Flood Area
05:46 Climate Change and Lake Bonneville
16:35 Rainfall and the Lake's Overflow
25:15 The Role of Earthquakes in Flood Events
32:06 Understanding the Missoula Flood
42:51 The Transition from Pliocene to Pleistocene
51:01 Types of Moraines and Their Significance
01:00:47 Asteroid Impacts and Geological Changes
01:06:44 Lessons from the Teton Dam Disaster
01:12:21 The Dynamics of Water Flow and Energy Dissipation
01:19:42 Visualizing the Landscape: Google Earth Exploration
01:32:56 Understanding Alluvial Fans and Fan Deltas
01:38:44 Identifying Geological Features in the Shenandoah Valley
01:46:17 The Impact of Uplift on River Paths
01:55:28 Catastrophic Floods and Their Geological Significance
02:11:58 The Interconnectedness of Climate and Geological Events Receive SMS online on sms24.me
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