Missoula Montana Ice Dams Research Paper

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9:20 AM March 15 13,000 B.C. . This is reporter Melissa Carmona and Tyler Mccallum coming at you with breaking news. Breaking news, in Missoula Montana the ice dams ( An ice dam is a ridge of ice that forms at the edge of a glacier and prevents melting snow (water) from draining off) are breaking a flood has taken over cities and towns!! Lives are at risk .The flood waters (flood waters are water overflowing as the result of a flood) poured into Lake Columbia and made major spillways. Which those spillways created scablands. Scablands are flat elevated land deeply scarred by channels of glacial or fluvioglacial is a variety of landforms are associated with meltwater from glaciers, including Outwash plains or Sandur, Varves, Braided Streams,

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