The Channeled Scablands are a relatively barren and soil-free region of interconnected relict and dry flood channels, coulees and cataracts eroded into Palouse loess and the typically flat-lying …

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 …

Mar 28, 2006 · The Spokane Flood left its mark along a course of more than 550 miles, extending from western Montana to the Pacific Ocean, but the most spectacular flood features were …

All across southeast Washington, fertile rolling hills border eroded tracts of volcanic basalt, as if Kansas farmland and Utah canyon land had been chopped up and sewed together into a …

The sides of the scabland channels in the eastern part of the lava field are marked in many places by steep slopes cut in the Palouse soil revealing in spectacular fashion the depth of the soil. …

Mar 8, 2017 · Remnant of a lost landscape, this island of ancient soil—crowned by a crop of wheat—survived the ice-age floods that sculpted the region known today as the Channeled …

Mar 28, 2006 · The traveler has reached the starkly scenic "Channeled Scablands," and this dramatic change in the landscape may well cause him to wonder "what happened here?" The …

The Drumheller Channels are a classic example of gouged and scoured ice age flood terrain. This landscape, known as the Channeled Scablands, is characterized by hundreds of small, …

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 …

The channeled scabland was created where the Ice Age floods accelerated across the tilted surface of the Palouse slope, causing massive erosion. Much of the eroded sediment was …