Episode #045: Phenomenal Ice Age Lake Agassiz and Megaflood Spillways

Summary

In this episode, Randall Carlson delves into the mysteries surrounding megaflood events and their connection to glacial deglaciation around 14.6 to 11.6 thousand years ago. He discusses Lake Agassiz as a significant inland sea and the catastrophic erosion it caused. Carlson also draws parallels between Earth and Mars, emphasizing the geomorphological evidence that reformulates our understanding of landscape formation and water's effects on it.

Key takeaways

• 1Lake Agassiz was an enormous inland sea, larger than the modern Great Lakes.
• 2Carlson questions the formation of glacial Lake Missoula and its catastrophic implications.
• 3The episode discusses the geomorphic features resulting from past megaflood events.
• 4Randall Carlson supports Graham Hancock's work and criticizes the need for formal credentials in fringe discussions.

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Transcript excerpt

That's ancientnutrition.com, code protein. This is Cosmographia, the Randall Carlson Podcast. And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to Cosmographia, the Randall Carlson Podcast. And we are joined, as usual, by the usual cast of suspects. Bradley, how are you doing, sir? I'm feeling unusual. Feeling unusual. Not a usual cast, but an unusual one? Nope, got to break away. Maybe just today, though. All right. Silent Mike. Staying silent. All right. Randall. Yeah. So, Mike is feeling normal. I think so. Brad is feeling unusual. I'm sort of feeling abnormal. All right. But hopefully I'll get over that before the show's over. I usually do. I usually do. Yeah, I think so. I feel normal. I mean, it's a normal day over here in weird Snake Bros territory, so. Yeah. Yeah. A normal day. So, you, but you guys didn't have a normal day here last episode, did you? Or was it the episode before? Where everybody was struggling to remain conscious? Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was too. Yeah, we were in the depths of Harvest and got up at 4 a.m. You worked all day and then came home and did Cosmographia. And so, yeah, it was great subject matter, but. Which we'd all been waiting for. Yep. Lake Henn and the connection between cosmic and flooding. Yeah. That's right. We were waiting on it. I was like, I've been waiting for this. I did not make it. Well, you made a gallant effort anyway, even though a moment you, you failed abysmally. Yeah. That's why it's recorded. That's right. We can go back. Go back. Yeah. We go back. Well, you guys got up at 4 a.m., right? Yeah. That would I, yeah? To do your, you're harvesting grapes? That's why we're up at 4. Yeah. ...

Excerpt from Kosmographia, Sep 26, 2020. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.