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1. What caused the Lake Missoula

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The lake was the result of an ice dam on the Clark Fork caused by the southern encroachment of a finger of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet into the Idaho Panhandle. It was the largest ice-dammed lake known to have occurred.

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