A glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) is a type of outburst flood caused by the failure of a dam containing a glacial lake. An event similar to a GLOF...

numerous glacial lake outburst floods were caused by the collapse of either ice sheets or glaciers that formed the dams of proglacial lakes. Examples...

The Missoula floods (also known as the Spokane floods or the Bretz floods or Bretz's floods) were cataclysmic glacial lake outburst floods that swept periodically...

of glacial lake outburst flood events caused by damming and subsequent breaking of moraine and ice. The amount of sediment found in glacial lakes varies...

Glacial Lake Missoula and Glacial Lake Wisconsin in the United States, the sudden rupturing of the supporting dam caused glacial lake outburst floods...

caused the glacial South Lhonak lake in Sikkim, a state in northeastern India, to breach its banks, causing a glacial lake outburst flood. The flood reached...

Missoula floods – Heavy floods of the last ice age Glacial lake outburst flood – Type of outburst flood that occurs when the dam containing a glacial lake fails...

and one of the 14 potentially dangerous lakes susceptible to Glacial lake outburst flood (GLOFs). The lake is located at 5,200 m (17,100 ft) above sea...

age. These glacial lake outburst floods were the result of periodic sudden ruptures of ice dams like those triggering the Missoula floods. In the US,...

world. Even though glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) events have been occurring in Nepal for many decades, the Dig Tsho glacier outburst, which took place...