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Glacial Age Floods

Between 20,000 and 9,500 years ago, the Mississippi River valley experienced glacial meltwater, outwash sediment, and giant floods.

Source: Iowa Department of Natural Resources

http://www.igsb.uiowa.edu/Browse/glacflds/glacflds.htm



 


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