In geomorphology, an outburst flood—a type of megaflood—is a high-magnitude, low-frequency catastrophic flood involving the sudden release of a large quantity...

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...

The Jishi Gorge outburst flood was a natural disaster that occurred around 1920 BC in China. The water flow during the eruption was one of the largest...

northeastern India, to breach its banks, causing a glacial lake outburst flood. The flood reached the Teesta III Dam at Chungthang at midnight, before its...

releasing the water trapped behind the ice, and causing a glacial lake outburst flood. But this was shown to be incorrect as satellite images showed no lakes...

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...

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 level...

Yellow River flood may refer to: Jishi Gorge outburst flood (c. 1920 BC) 1034 Yellow River flood 1048 Yellow River flood 1194 Yellow River flood 1344 Yellow...

[ˈjœːkʏl̥ˌl̥œyp] pronunciation) (literally "glacial run") is a type of glacial outburst flood. It is an Icelandic term that has been adopted in glaciological terminology...

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