The Unbelievable Story of Earth’s Most Epic Flood 

you're not the best comedian, but I guess all geologists have their faults

I think that those floods were guilty of basalt and battery! 😊

I read about this in the manga, The Bible

How is it that geologists don't see this same sort of event as creating the Grand Canyon?? (Sorry. Not a joke.)

What did Gold say to Pyrite? You're a fool and a fake.

It truly is. No camera can do it justice.

Nice, my husband is from Yakima. It was at YVCC that he started his Geology degree and completed it in Spokane. We went on many Geology field trips. Field camp was in Dillon, MT.

I’ve been to dry falls several times, and recently went to Niagara Falls. I used to think that sure, these falls would have been pretty big, but now I have a better perspective on what that really would have been like, and it would have been epic!

Hopefully you’re not around for the next cycle of these floods😅

@@nerd_alert927 That’s really awesome! I’m just an old rock hound, and amateur geologist. The geologic history of the earth fascinates me.

+1 for Nick Zentner!

I love his videos! I'm subbed to his channel.

About two years ago i found Nick on the Rocks and never looked back. i live in Boston and more than anything want to visit this wild place. I need to see this. German Chocolate Cake

@@dukecity7688 yes, Nw local here - no camera does the cake justice.

That guy is great! Might I recommend Shawn Willsey channel

This winter, 2023/24 Nick Zentner (Central Washington University) is doing a 13 week series on this subject. check it out. Best to watch it from episode A (A-Z). Right now, December 1st, he is on episode F. Very heavy in details from this flood.

Professor Nick Zentner even uploaded his entire Geology 101 lectures he gives at Central Washington University as well 😊

​@@dadskrej5226Agreed! Another armchair student from Alberta Canada here! 🇨🇦 🌋🗻🗺⏳️

Nick is fantastic! 🫶

I was addicted to his channel after discovering it during lockdown

Was thinking the same, I grew up going camping in the potholes (as my dad referred to them) and going to the Coulee gorge for concerts. I always wondered why the landscape was so flat, with random jutting cliffs going up and very deep and scattered round holes pock marked throughout. Never saw the rippling in the valleys cause it's mostly farmland and never had a birds eye view to see the areas not covered in farms.

@@SgtDreamzyou can see some rippling between othello and royal city

Noah from the Bible: I told you so.

LMAO NOHA

Yeah, the fact that the floods happened around 39 times really blows that silly primitive Sumerian flood story out of the water.

@@WWZenaDo and the fact that these floods not only submerge everything but also utterly PWN everything in their direction.

They’re called glacial erratic’s

I drove through that area myself after acquiring a USGS pamphlet on the Scablands, and was very impressed with the magnitude and unseal terrain.

Didn't GOD flood earth to rid the world of evil?

@@richardoutlaw7550 no cause there is no god. U are watching science video dude

Is Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge part of this?

@@richardoutlaw7550 If he did it didn't work.

The bible records a worldwide flood! Why not believe that?

And then the one after that, when the land dam at the Bosporus finally failed and a huge inhabited valley became the Black Sea.

Americans being egocentric , what else is new?

How cool would it have been to sit on the rock at Gibraltar and watch that happening in front of you.😮

@@stevehoffmann543 What makes you think, the area was inhabited?

Why would he refuse to use aerial photos or direct observation?!

@@m.dewylde5287 aerial photos were not available at that time.

​@@glacier68Is this a joke? Bretz studied the grounds in the 1920s. This is a simple Google search that took 5 seconds: "The first known aerial photograph was taken in 1858 by French photographer and balloonist, Gaspar Felix Tournachon, known as "Nadar". Wilbur Wright was the first pilot in remote sensing history that took photographs from an aeroplane. Wilbur's passenger, L. P. Bonvillain, on a demonstration flight in France in 1908, took the first photograph from an aircraft."

@@m.dewylde5287 5 seconds of Google search can show you a lot of things... However, the difference between experimental use of aerial photos and systematic aerial surveys was several decades. For instance, the oldest aerial survey photos for Washington State are typically mid 1930s to early 1940s, and those weren't necessarily comprehensive, being flown by govt agencies like the Army Corps of Engineers or the Department of War for their needs. As such, these photos wouldn't be publicly available. www.archives.gov/research/cartographic/aerial-photography (Practicing Washington environmental geologist with 25+ years experience. Uses historic aerial photos for due diligence projects)

​@@m.dewylde5287 I think it was just not that common and widespread back then. The costs were also perhaps a reason. The most aerial observations were done after WWII

i'm 2 minutes into the video and immediately thought of prof nick zentner. yes for anyone who is nuts about plate tectonics, glaciers/megafloods, or geology...yall need to check him out. i believe its central washinton university. he also does hour long lectures for what appears to be amateurs or continuing education students. very accessible stuff.

So epic they lived to tell the story?

@@rosscourtney9913 Yes. Noah, his three sons and their wives all survived on the Ark.

The oveall amount of the water into the Mediterranean was perhaps thousands of times as great, but it might not have happened at as great a RATE. If the scablands flood took place over a few days, as the video claims, while the Mediterranean took hundreds of years to fill, then the record rate would belong to the scablands.

This was my initial reaction as well

I also want more content on the Messinian Salinity Crisis

@@peternyikos8020 it is estimated that it took a maximum of two years to flood the Mediterranean, with a maximum discharge rate of 100 million cubic metres per second.

@@flori5296while the Mediterranean flood is insane these events are pretty different

You lucky guy. Geology was one of my favorite subjects in college. A professor encouraged me to be a geologist, but I ignored him. Today, it's still absolutely fascinating to me, and I'm truly regretful of the fact that I didn't listen to my professor. I especially love those basalt columns. Wow!

@@GladysAlicea you should really try to make a visit. I live a few hours south of it and am always amazed of the landscape it created. I would suggest starting in Portland and driving Eastbound on I 84 through the Columbia river gorge to Hermiston, then head North to Dry falls. Seeing the landscape along the way tells a great story.

@@sunrisetacticalgear2676 Funny thing...I drove through Portland years ago, headed from airport to a conference at a country resort I can't remember the name of, but didn't know about this place. The drive was long and so beautiful and green.

That's because floods happen all the time, and they're a frequent and often cataclysmic disaster.

Interesting! Which mountain do they say it was on?

Yeap and Europeans (And therefor colonialists when they spread out to rest of the world) thought they were liars for hundreds of years. I blame it on two things: 1) The "Dark Ages". I think it destroyed a lot of historic knowledge in Europe. If you go to any other civilization that's been around for(ever) they have history tracing back for thousands of years that is verifiable. Europe, not so much. 2) It's also great tactic for conquerors to claim local knowledge is a myth. It gives you validity with the people in the area you're coming from because you can say "You're making things right" so they support you and give you money, fight the wars etc etc. It also causes cognitive dissonance in the people you're conquering. They see that you're "more powerful" and start to think that your story of history must be right. (And Colonizing an already populated area is a form of conquering). ------------It' Gas Lighting at it's finest! Like seriously, there is now archeological proof that humans(oids) have been here for at least 50,000 years. Potentially even LONGER but the current dating techniques don't go back that far. For decades we've been like "Nope, no one was here more then 12k years ago." And anyone that wanted to do deeper digging was thought to be a crack pot. Then someone finally said screw it and kept digging and kept finding more and more stuff. Now several other people are doing the same and finding the same stuff dating back as far. And the Native Americans are like, "Uh, we've been here for 80,000+ years." Which, they probably have been. I wouldn't be surprised if humanoids have been in the Western Hemisphere for as long as they have existed. What I've always found weird is, why are there no major North American city ruins? We see evidence of such in Central and South but.. not so much here. And even the ones we find there are not as old as the ones we find in the Eastern Hemisphere... so, why did Western civilization take such a different direction and NOT gather into cities for so long? Civilization in the Eastern did... it's rather odd. ... all though, there are people that claim that European colonialists DID find ruins in North America and they were all torn apart and covered with modern cities. (Back in the time of wooden buildings etc etc.) That there is a major conspiracy to hide the fact there were major civilizations in the US etc. Idk though, that seems more far fetched then just civilization taking a different route for some strange reason.

@@OgdenM ?

@@omranhashim1028 himalya .king manu went there

Randall Carlson hasn't done anything to progress our understanding of these floods. Why would we thank him?

Yes, without RC, this YTer wouldn't even have bothered making this video.

@@BlGGESTBROTHER yeah bringing it to the attention of hundreds of thousands of people really isn’t anything now is it.

@@BlGGESTBROTHER So upset lmao

YDIT

Zentner is the best! I especially enjoy his "In the Field" series of videos where he goes and explores geologic sites with other practicing geologists.

Fascinating natural science vs uninteresting religion mythos that's somehow still relevant today

@@TheDeadOfNight37 It's only relevant to ignorant and fearful minds.

Nick is not only fascinating, he is a great teacher/lecturer!

@@mrfriz4091 In this video he does say, later on, that the ice wall reformed and melted multiple times. So this is all the work of multiple, days-long floods separated by.. ice ages.

Yes he does. I’ve heard up to 40 or more. I live in WA state and driven through the scablands. Dry Falls formation is astounding.

Hello fellow Zentnerds!

It’s cool that this topic is getting more attention, funny that they used nick zentner’s animation of the flood!

Was thinking this as well. Also, the flood when the bosporus opened up and the Black Sea level started quickly rising.

I was expecting that this was going to talk about the Lake Bonneville flood. I would say that the Lake Bonneville flood was bigger.

Indeed. The Missoula flood was awesome, too bad he had to say it was the most epic. Kind of a fail for a science channel.

The lake Missoula flood was about 4 times bigger than Bonneville flood. The Zanclean flood was about 200 times bigger, but took about 2 years to fill up the Mediterranean Sea.

Bonneville Flood is estimated to have lasted for years as it was also an erosion event rather than an Ice Dam burst. So while it may have drained more by volume, the extent of the flooding would be less extreme.

Hey how did you commented before uploading??

@@arv_01 she probably has ch*nnel membership

Patreon 😉

@@besmart oh sir! You commented there! Big fan of yours from Pakistan 🇵🇰 (Probably you haven't heard of my country)

@@arv_01 how do you upload videos Before you put on video 🤔

Like the bridge of the gods period professor nicholas zentner covers this on his youtube channel period he's an excellent follow comma highly recommended

@@BlackCeII Agreed - Zentner is a wealth of information!

I'm an avid fan too. Glad to see his teachings reinforced with this video with a large audience! Really neat.

amen

Randall Carlson

@@johnlewis9687 Randal Carlson is a charlatan. Pseudoscience and smoke and mirrors. Hard pass on wasting any of my time watching his bullshit

No, because a lot of that is misinformation. Among other things, these floods were not one-off disasters: similar floods happened at the end of EVERY Pleistocene ice age.

Randall Carlson is awesome. Everybody should watch his videos.

He hypothesised about this so many years ago and was simply laughed at. I loved watching his clear evidence through his presentations that made such sense, and now it seems he is finally being proven all he said and studied is finally recognised and also taken seriously as academically accepted! Go Randall!

Mr. Carlson understands the floods fully, except in two ways. He doesn’t believe in Lake Missoula and he has the dating all wrong. But his cult are blind to this, hence the writing below or above.

Antonio Zamora is another fascinating guy that has done a ton of research into the ice age geology of North America. There are some theories about a comet impact on the ice sheet towards the end of the last glacial maximum. There are thousands of elliptical depressions known as the Carolina bays that could be the result of huge chunks of ice being blasted across the continent due to the comet exploding on the ice sheet.

Why thank you!

I don't think the people who lived there when the flood happened shared that opinion

The people that witnessed the flood would like to share a word with you

🕳….. 🐇 Haha!! Down the rabbit hole!!! I’ve been there many times! 🤣

Check out Nick on the Rocks. You'll find lots of great videos on this and related topics by professor from Central Washington University

just as I started to lose hope of someone even just namedropping Randall, I scrolled far enough down to find your 'shots fired' comment. thank you!

Randalls chapter format with spicier video than his topographical maps. Great job if not for some level of likely plagerism.

@@josephgranger5261 Yeah, the big flood video near the beginning is directly from something Randall showed a year or two ago on one of his podcasts (if I remember correctly). Someone would have to track down the original vid to see if credits are cited.

Bible has been talking about it for millennia.

@@codymadison9993 Sure, but the timeline Carlson points to is far older than anything biblical scripture mentions. The commonality of the story worldwide doesn't disprove the scriptural concept. But all of the others claim that flood is much older than the guesswork timeline of supposed biblical scholars.

Glacial lake Agassiz was far larger than the one in Montana. When its collapsed the waters passed out through the St. Lawrence and we're so great as to change the temperature and salinity of the north west Atlantic Ocean. This video is greatly exaggerated.

@@brians5348 Lake Agassiz never "collapsed" per se. It drained (on several different occasions) over thousands of years and the water went in different directions, not just down the St. Lawrence. As far as the video is concerned, with all due respect to you, I think I'll trust the word of the PBS backed biologist and the scientist who has studied the region over some dude on the internet.

That's easy to answer. Randy isn't a deep state puppet like PBS and these people are. They will give partial truths to hide the big lies. Fact is, there are many theories of earth's history geologically, it's civilizations, Biblically, and so on. It's pretty obvious our history that we've been fed has been altered or a flat out lie. The truth? It's out there probably buried or hidden in or under some ancient site.

Because while he is passionate, he has theories without evidence, evidence that are not evidence, and thinks all scientist never update what they think and that they never would admit to such a flood. This one is real, Randal’s is not. And I’ve seen enough of him, and enough prehistoric archeology and geology in 4 years in university to separate those too. I just want the same proof we needed here, and I am almost certain to have already seen enough proof that that’s not the history of the places he mentions, not in this way, but maybe I missed one somewhere and it exists, nonetheless, the facts he needs for his idea are still absent, he doesn’t have them and still points at facts that aren’t at the moment.

Earth's climate change has been going on literally for billions of years.

@@Love-you-too It's amazing you are so critical of Randall Carlson when he has an episode that is almost an exact parallel of this program aside from advertising bogus claims about the need to reduce C02 which happens to be plant food and has been at much higher levels in the past than it is now. Randall Carlson - Episode No. 28. Destruction by Floods and Fire He uses the same evidence in his program that is presented in this video. This PBS video just corroborates Randall's science.

If anyone deserves credit, it's professor of geology at central Washington university Nick Zentner. He's been making videos and doing the actual research on the scabland floods his whole career. He does actual, real, quantifiable science.

Randal Carlson who is supposed to be the initiator on the great Flood, has stolen everything he presented from the book WHY AND HOW THE ICE AGE ENDED which was published in 2012. If you check the date above you will see that Randall Carlson had nothing about the Great Flood before it anywhere. And if you read the book you will realize immediately that Randal Carlson has everything from that book. If you go to you tube to "ice age from asteroid impact", you will see a video made by the writer of the book WHY AND HOW THE ICE AGE ENDED explaining how it may have happen based on logic and physics. Everything about the Ice Age and the Great Flood was started by Raven Alb J , and everybody is copying him. The video on you tube "ice age from asteroid impact" was published 7 years ago yet it has only 25,000 views. That is because it makes too much sense, and it will change the view of the world on how climate change happens. Therefore the people who control you tube has made the algorithm in such a way that hardly anyone sees this video. You should see it and judge for yourself.

Except the ice wall just didn't snap. It was caused by a meteor. Hence the alignment with younger dryas era.

Randall Carlson has provided nothing to our understanding of the Scablands other than make up a fantasy and shoehorn it in. FYI the LAST of the floods, which were the smallest pre-dates his impact hypothesis. The Clovis occupied Panghorn bar and it's one of the largest Clovis sites in North America. Even the Clovis come AFTER the floods.

​@@jesse6845nope

@@swirvinbirds1971 yup

Nick Zenter did a video on it.

@@sophierobinson2738, yes, as have others.

I agree

*Carlson

Although Randall has popularized some of this information, he was nearly a hundred years late on recognizing these structures. That discovery belongs to Harlan Bretz, a geologist who fought for decades to have his theories on the floods of Eastern Washington accepted by the geological experts of the time.

@@briangarrow448 These Carlson sycophants are pissing me off. Stop stealing Bretz's accomplishments!

@@BlGGESTBROTHER Agreed. He's the after show and came to late to the party. Still thinks an asteroid or series of them caused this glacier melting. About the only thing he is right about that humans have been in North America during many ice ages or about 100000 years.

I find it interesting that a lot of people who have never been to Washington are completely unaware that this state has deserts and canyons and stuff.

Yup, we stole all of Eastern Washington's topsoil

@@luckyduck8375 makes for some of the best organic peaches I've ever tasted ! =)

Really cool reading comments from all our fellow PNWers !! Pretty awesome to think about what this part of the world might have looked like thousands of years ago. And the giant faunal that roamed the land.

Check out Nick Zentner's channel. He's an awesome geology teacher at Central Washington University, and he's posted a lot of his lectures, etc., on his channel. He does a lot on the Missoula floods. Check out the links in the description above for this video.

I saw this when it first came out. It is a totally amazing story.

Not quite. Flood legends around the world don't talk of rivers flooding, they always say the water came from the sea. Some researchers have suggested the Burckle Crater in the Indian Ocean as a possible source. Australian Aboriginal legends tell of the stars falling to both the East and West of the continent so a comet may have split. The Biblical story is lifted from the "Epic of Gilgamesh" and when reading it, it's hard to think it's a description of anything other than an impact event.

The Great Oxidation Event. Fascinating stuff. We wouldn’t have had an industrial revolution without it. What really fascinates me is the self destructive nature of our own species mimicking the organisms of those mass blooming and die off events.

Correct, kind of. There were similar floods across the earth (just none as large as this one that we know of). PBS has an article that mentions at least 100 known other floods that occurred around the same time across the earth. Floods across Asia, Europe, and North America. Glacial Lake Agassiz is what I remember off top of my head. Anyways that’s probably where all the religious stories of ancient floods destroying civilization and humans having to restart comes from. If you want to see a list of all the flood creation myths go to Wikipedia and search ‘List of flood myths’. Interesting stuff.

@@mitten97 Sure. Lots of floods all over the earth at different times and places. My understanding was there was a large flood on the Tigris / Euphrates flood plains which has been often thought to be the source of the biblical flood myth. But in no way, shape, or form was there ever a flood that covered the entire earth.

Meltwater pulse 1A and meltwater pulse 1B changed the landscape of the planet in every place relevant to the humans of that time. Effectivley, not literally, "the whole world". The Reed Boat found at the bottom of the Arrarat Mountains is most likely from the Burkle crater event.

Glacial Lake Wisconsin. The two lakes which carved Grand Canyon. All these lakes were remnants of the Genesis flood as well as the glaciers which ultimately melted.

@@ws775 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yes! Our ancient giant Pleistocene lake here in Northern Utah deserves some love. I say this as someone who would be treading water if it filled up again. But hey the shoreline trails are fun to hike

I've read that mythology book too. 😆