The only reasonable conclusion, Bretz proposed, was that the Scablands were created by massive and short-lived floods. Bretz’s colleagues were not ready for such a conclusion.

Remnant of a lost landscape, this island of ancient soil—crowned by a crop of wheat—survived the ice-age floods that sculpted the region known today as the Channeled Scablands.

This video explores the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington, a landscape dramatically sculpted by cataclysmic Ice Age floods. It delves into the geological evidence of these megafloods and ...

The Scablands floods took place thousands of years ago, when glacial lakes in Idaho drained into the area. To a geologist, the most striking feature of the Scablands is the ripples.

Bretz argued that only a flood of nearly incomprehensible proportions – now thought to contain 10 times as much water as all of the world’s rivers combined – could have carved out the Scablands.

Killer Floods. Season 44 Episode 18 | 54m 10s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Scientists uncover geologic evidence of epic floods that tore through ancient landscapes. All over the world ...

VIC BAKER: The Channeled Scabland is one of the most fascinating landscapes, and the tremendous catastrophic floods were probably the most spectacular things that happened on the planet.

After teaching geology at the University of Washington for a decade, I had become embarrassed that I hadn’t yet seen the deep canyons where tremendous Ice Age floods scoured down into solid rock to ...

Such a vast inundation, far greater than anything ever witnessed in historical time, seemed impossible to geologists in the 1920s, when J Harlen Bretz proposed that the scablands resulted from a ...

Eastern Washington's Channeled Scablands might not have a pretty name, but the coulees and cliffs scoured by ice-age floods are well worth exploring on a geology-lesson road trip.