Channeled scablands: A megaflood landscape

Victor R. Baker

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-3055-9_3

Channeled scablands: A megaflood landscape

Victor R. Baker

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Abstract

The Channeled Scabland of east-central Washington in the USA is a complex of anastomosing, rock-cut fluvial channels, rock basins, cataracts, streamlined loess hills, and immense gravel bars. It was all produced by cataclysmic erosion and deposition from Pleistocene megaflooding derived from the margins of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet that covered much of the mountainous northwestern part of North America.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Geomorphological Landscapes of the World
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Pages	21-28
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9789048130542
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3055-9_3
State	Published - 2010

Keywords

coulees
fluvial erosion
megaflooding
scabland

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Environmental Science(all)
Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)

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