Strange terms and even stranger geology. Find more about it in the links below.
The placemarks have been significantly modified and expanded since this post first appeared. That placemark folder is now attached to the "Channeled Scablands Update" post .

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The Channeled Scablands are unique geological erosion features in the U.S. state of Washington. They were created by cataclysmic flooding of the Columbia River Plateau during the Pleistocene epoch. Geologist J Harlan Bretz coined the term in a series of papers in the 1920's. Debate over the origin of the Scablands raged for forty years and is one of the great battles in the history of geologists.

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