(03 December 2023) The last ice age of Earth involved immense floods with peak flows comparable to those of ocean currents. About 40 examples are now known from Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Iceland. These mega-floods generated major landscape changes and huge fluxes of freshwater to the world oceans, resulting in global climatic change. The profound consequences of this flooding for Earth’s inhabitants may have even inspired many oral traditions of world-wide inundation.
Vic Baker’s interest in the ice-age flood landscapes began in the 1950s when he was living in Bothell, Washington. His Ph.D. research on the scablands, completed in 1971, partly advised by J Harlen Bretz. A former President of The Geological Society of America, his publications include 20 books and more than 450 geology articles. He has appeared internationally in more than a dozen television documentaries dealing with ancient mega flooding on Earth and Mars.
indicate the extent of glacial ice and purple areas show mega areas at the time of the ice-age flooding.