The debate on the origin of the Scablands that ensued for four decades became one of the great controversies in the history of earth science. The Scablands are also important to planetary …

The first farmers in the region named the rocky parts “scablands” and dismissed them as useless as they planted their wheat on the silt-rich hills. But geologists were not so dismissive; to them, …

The Channeled Scablands extend from the area around Spokane, west to the Columbia River near Vantage and southwest to the Snake River near Pasco. They are known as the …

4 days ago · An ominously named landscape of bleak, almost alien beauty, the Scablands in southeast Washington State is a geological wonder that holds many secrets and fascinating …

Aug 20, 2023 · Part of the Columbia Plateau, the Channeled Scablands can be found on a majority of the southern half of the park. It is a type of shrub-steppe ecosystem, which is …

scabland: a region characterized by elevated tracts of rocky land with little or no soil cover and traversed or isolated by postglacial dry stream channels. -Webster- “Drumheller is the most …

In this interactive map, explore the region in and around the Channeled Scabland, and discover the extraordinary geologic features that the megafloods left behind.

In eastern Washington state, there is a vast landscape with unusual landforms, the Channeled Scablands. Here, a dedicated geologist meticulously documented data that challenged his …

Geology logline: How a catastrophic series of floods were recognized by J Harlen Bretz and Joseph Pardee to have formed the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington State, USA.

This landscape, known as the Channeled Scablands, is characterized by hundreds of small, isolated, steep-sided buttes surrounded by ancient braided stream channels that have since …