Channeled Scablands - Wikipedia
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 basalt flows that remain after cataclysmic floods within the southeastern part of Washington state.
Channeled Scablands - The Seven Wonders of Washington State
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 "Channeled Scablands" because they are crisscrossed by long channels cut into the bedrock, called coulees.
Channeled Scablands - NASA Earth Observatory
Apr 19, 2018 · The landforms on the Columbia Plateau in eastern Washington reveal a past punctuated by violent floods.
USGS: The Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington …
Mar 28, 2006 · The part of the lava field that underlies the Scablands in eastern Washington is a saucer-shaped area of about 15,000 square miles almost completely surrounded by mountains and nearly encircled by three rivers—the Columbia, the Spokane, and the Snake (Fig. 2, page 3).
The Channeled Scablands – Historical Geology
Bretz’s 1923 map of the Channeled Scablands shows the prevailing northeast-to-southwest orientation of dozens of coulees. The coulees branch and merge, wrapping around isolated mesas of basalt and loess.
Map of eastern Washington - Bentler
Color map of Eastern Washington State showing land cover, shaded relief and geographic names of coulees and canyons of the channelled scablands, ridges and mountains, from Horse Heaven Hills to Selkirk Mountains.
Dry Falls Visitor Center | Washington State Parks
Dry Falls, the main feature in a series of huge cataracts known as the “great cataract group”, sits at the heart of Washington’s Channeled Scabland, a vast landscape of dry canyons scoured out by glacial outburst floods at the end of the last ice age.
Map: Channeled Scablands WA - PNWRMS - 2018
It also shows the Spokane district, the Lake Chelan National Recreation Area, the Alpine Lakes Wilderness, Glacier Peak Wilderness, William O. Douglas Wilderness, Norse Peak Wilderness, and Goat Rocks Wilderness. The map includes information about motorized off-road travel (ATVs, motorcycles, etc.) Scale is 1/2" = 1 mile, 2015
Channeled Scablands - Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area …
Aug 20, 2023 · What are the Channeled Scablands? 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 characterized by large shrubs, broadleaf wildflowers, and a …
WA100: A Washington Geotourism Website
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, isolated, steep-sided buttes surrounded by ancient braided stream channels that have since dried up.