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October 13, 2014
The Scablands: A scarred landscape as strange as fiction
It's a land seemingly starved of rain in the shadow of the Cascade Mountains. But the dry landscape known as the “Scablands” actually tells a story about excess—excess of water, water that was torrential and sudden. The Scablands are essentially wounds, still unhealed by time and erosion. They cut through the land and down into the rock after a series of unfathomably large floods unleashed by the catastrophic draining of great glacial lakes—half the volume of Lake Michigan splashed onto the land in less than a week. If you can imagine that, you’ve got us beat. The story recorded in this landscape is so incredible, it took one geologist decades to convince his colleagues that he was reading it correctly.-- | Ars Technica
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at October 14, 2014 12:23 AM
More Global Warming caused troubles.
Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck at October 14, 2014 7:58 AM
Its a fantastic landscape and I love to explore it. All of Washington state shows obvious signs of water and land movement. Very frisky.
Posted by: pbird at October 14, 2014 10:19 AM