scablands

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scablands - (geology) flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington) geology - a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one Evergreen State, WA, Washington - a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific land, soil, ground - material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil"