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scabland

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scab·land  (skblnd)
n.
An elevated area of barren rocky land with little or no soil cover, often crossed by dry stream channels. Often used in the plural: the scablands of eastern Washington.


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Baker highlight the strength of comparative planetology, noting that our current understanding of Martian outflow channels would not have been possible without the study of terrestrial analogues, such as the Channelled Scabland in the United States.
Lower areas, including the angular scablands near Horsethief Butte, were stripped of soil by giant Ice Age floods that roared down the Columbia River from a glacial dam in northern Idaho about 10,000 years ago.
Those inundations, which occurred when a glacial lake burst through the edge of the ice sheet that constrained it, sculpted a chaotically eroded terrain in eastern Washington that geologists aptly call the Channeled Scablands.
 
 
 
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