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  • His only hope of survival is to escape across the arid Scablands to Memphis, a city the opposite of the Sanctuary in every way: breathtakingly beautiful, infinitely Godless, and deeply corrupt.

    Some Books in the Mail Bryce L. 2010

  • His only hope of survival is to escape across the arid Scablands to Memphis, a city the opposite of the Sanctuary in every way: breathtakingly beautiful, infinitely Godless, and deeply corrupt.

    Archive 2010-05-01 Bryce L. 2010

  • His only hope of survival is to escape across the arid Scablands to Memphis, a city the opposite of the Sanctuary in every way: breathtakingly beautiful, infinitely Godless, and deeply corrupt.

    Mihir’s Anticipated 2010 Books Liviu 2010

  • So, yes, there are geological features that invoke catastrophic causes like the Lake Missoula floods that produced the Channelled Scablands but there are also geological features like the Grand Canyon produced by the Colorado River that invoke slow, gradual processes for their formation.

    Delicate Arch - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • His only hope of survival is to escape across the arid Scablands to Memphis, a city the opposite of the Sanctuary in every way: breathtakingly beautiful, infinitely Godless, and deeply corrupt.

    “The Left Hand of God” by Paul Hoffman (Reviewed by Robert Thompson and Liviu Suciu) Robert 2009

  • Scablands, composed of arrays of earth mounds surrounded by rock polygons, are relics of Pleistocene glacial periods.

    Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA) 2009

  • But -- have you heard about the Channeled Scablands?

    MORE FROM GINNY BATES: CHRIS KASH-KASH Maggie Jochild 2007

  • So, yes, there are geological features that invoke catastrophic causes like the Lake Missoula floods that produced the Channelled Scablands but there are also geological features like the Grand Canyon produced by the Colorado River that invoke slow, gradual processes for their formation.

    Delicate Arch - The Panda's Thumb 2009

  • (Google earth photo of Channeled Scablands -- The town at the north edge of the picture is Coulee City, WA, next to the Grand Coulee dam)

    MORE FROM GINNY BATES: CHRIS KASH-KASH Maggie Jochild 2007

  • The next day they drove to Drumheller and began exploring the Scablands by jeep, Ginny insisting on having the first try at four-wheel drive.

    MORE FROM GINNY BATES: CHRIS KASH-KASH Maggie Jochild 2007

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