scablands

One flood happened when a glacial lake burst its empoundment and created the scablands in Oregon, Another flood happened when the Mediterranean flooded the Black Sea and others have happened at other times.

Man made global warming? No way! 2009

One flood happened when a glacial lake burst its empoundment and created the scablands in Oregon, Another flood happened when the Mediterranean flooded the Black Sea and others have happened at other times.

Man made global warming? No way! 2009

Yet, such a world-girdling flood ought to and would have left enormous, massive evidence of just the sorts of things that floods do — but, except for specific localities where real floods are known to have have occurred at other times, e.g., the so-called “scablands” of eastern Washington state, such evidence is wholly lacking.

"My problem was, how am I going to draw God?" Ann Althouse 2009

Never mind that the wait at both ends and the flight time is more time consuming than a four-hour drive over the “mountains” and through the “scablands” to bubba land.

Archive 2005-02-20 2005

To all appearances, the forest looks healthy -- a green tapestry of ponderosa pine spreading across five square miles of low buttes, ashy scablands, and rocky promontories.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

That's how, on a crisp, clear Saturday morning that October, I found myself driving across Washington State, through the serrated Cascades, through the channeled scablands, wheat fields, and scrub forests, until I descended into Spokane and all that I'd left behind.

Land of the Blind Walter, Jess, 1969- 2003

During the last glacial period, Lake Missoula filled and burst through its ice dam some 40 times or more, scouring eastern Washington to create what is called the channeled scablands.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

Crab Creek flows through “scablands” scoured by the many great floods from ice-dam failures of glacial Lake Missoula.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

During the last glacial period, Lake Missoula filled and burst through its ice dam some 40 times or more, scouring eastern Washington to create what is called the channeled scablands.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002

Crab Creek flows through “scablands” scoured by the many great floods from ice-dam failures of glacial Lake Missoula.

Trout and Salmon of North America Robert J. Behnke 2002