Channeled Scablands - Palouse River

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“During the ice-age floods, this entire scene was submerged beneath hundreds of feet of water,” says geologist Bruce Bjornstad. The Palouse River, shown here, "was hijacked and forced to follow a new route to the Snake River.”
Ecosystem
Desert
Subject tags
Floods
Geology
Physical geography