Peak discharges from Ice Age floods may not be explained by ice dams alone. A major earthquake —or even a cosmic impact into the ice sheet— could unleash forces equal to a magnitude 8 quake, fracturing ice and triggering catastrophic floods. Some geologists suggest multiple events, but even a single dam holding back 2,000 feet of water stretches plausibility. Resealing and failing again and again only multiplies the problem. | The Randall Carlson

At the end of the Ice Age, floods may have trapped woolly mammoths and other megafauna in depressions, leading to their sudden extinction. The event, known as the Younger Dryas, wiped out up to 75% of North America's mammals in a very short time. Could floods have been the real cause? | The Randall Carlson

During the late Ice Age, massive floods tore across North America—reshaping rivers, enlarging valleys, and pouring billions of tons of water and sediment into the oceans. These weren’t just local disasters—they rewired entire drainage systems like the Mississippi, Yukon, and Columbia. The evidence is everywhere—if you know how to read the land. | The Randall Carlson

Plato described a catastrophic rise event 11,600 years ago, a date preserved through Solon, Critias the Elder, Critias the Younger, and finally to Socrates and Plato. Modern geology places a major global upheaval at that same moment. Coincidence is the skeptical answer, yet the alignment between mythic chronology and scientific evidence is difficult to ignore. | The Randall Carlson