NASA: Catastrophic Floods Happen
When NASA say catastrophic floods they are not talking about Hurricane Katrina. Check this out:
Geologists would learn that the waters could have drowned a 40-story skyscraper, making them 20 times deeper than the Hurricane-Katrina-triggered flooding that destroyed swaths of New Orleans and the Gulf coast in 2005. Computer modeling would reveal that in the upper Grand Coulee, water charged over the cliff now called Dry Falls at the highway speed of 65 miles per hour. Dry Falls would be recognized as the largest waterfall to have existed on Earth, carrying 10 times as much water as all modern rivers combined.
The article is discussing the Washington state canyon known as Grand Coulee, and the history of discovering what caused its creation. Modern opinion is that the flooding was due to glacial melting at the end of the last Ice Age. I found the final paragraph interesting, considering NASA is very much not a fan of catastrophist notions:
“Our whole understanding of catastrophic processes has changed as a result of that work,” says Baker. “Now we know that many geologically interesting places, including the English Channel, were formed by floods. And it doesn’t only happen on Earth. Mars has outflow channels that are seen as evidence of catastrophic floods.”
Remember, if it has happened before, it will happen again!
