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But when I returned to the scablands with Bretz’s story in ... canyon and shaped the surrounding landscape of eastern Washington State. Standing in the middle of a broad swath of scablands ...
This video explores the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington, a landscape dramatically sculpted by cataclysmic Ice Age floods. It delves into the geological evidence of these megafloods and the ...
Having just read John Soennichsen’s new “Washington’s Channeled ... east into the heart of channeled scabland recreation: Grand Coulee. Cruising along state Highway 155, we admired Banks ...
What triggered these cataclysmic floods, and could they strike again? In the Channeled Scablands of Washington State, the level prairie gives way to bizarre, gargantuan rock formations.
It's hard to believe the desert-like Scablands neighbors the rest of lush Washington state. Just ask J Harlen Bretz; he spent the better part of a century trying to convince his colleagues this ...
Washington State Parks recommends starting with a visit ... and then hearing them say ‘Dry Falls and the channeled scablands are so much bigger than I thought’,” says interpretive ranger ...
Not far from where the rivers meet is a geological wonder, a pattern of canyons or coulees that make up what is known as Washington’s channeled scablands. These unique box canyons were carved by ...
A view of a Palouse Falls in Palouse Falls State Park in Washington. Geologists believe massive floods carved out this canyon and others in the Scablands. Glenn Traver via Getty Images The Earth ...
creating overnight such unusual landscapes as the scablands of eastern Washington State. In this interview, geologist and scablands expert Vic Baker of the University of Arizona talks about what ...