Reading Landscapes After Glacial Lake Missoula

Glacial Lake Missoula is one of the great landscape stories of western North America.

It filled behind an ice dam, failed catastrophically, and sent floods across the Northwest again and again.

What the landscape remembers

Reading that story means learning to recognize strandlines, giant current ripples, scablands, constrictions, backflood deposits, and the uncertainty built into reconstructing ancient events.

Why visualization helps

A map can show the basin. A simulator can show change: lake levels rising, routes opening, flood corridors connecting, and evidence sites becoming part of a larger story.

Glacial Lake Missoula Simulator is built to make that story visible.