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scab·land

 (skăb′lănd′)
n. often scablands
An elevated area of barren rocky land with little or no soil cover, often crossed by dry stream channels: the scablands of eastern Washington.
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The nine contributions that make up the main body of the text are devoted to the Pleistocene megaflood landscapes of the Channeled Scabland, basalt and rhyolite volcanism in the western Snake River Plain of Idaho, the Columbia River Basalt Group of western Idaho and eastern Washington, and many other related subjects.
When you're sitting quietly in a duck blind and the ducks aren't flying, a woodland pond or a scabland slough can still be a wondrous place.
Dad was of the opinion I should have called home, but as he wasn't a hunter himself, I couldn't make him understand there were places out there in the Big Outside where the closest telephone was across 40 miles of muddy scabland.
The Cerberus Plains (shown) on the Red Planet resemble the Channeled Scabland and are thought to have formed in cataclysmic floods as many as 10 million years ago.
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.
occidentalis DC.), buckwheat (Eriogonum sp.), scabland sagebrush [Artemisia rigida (Nutt.) Gray], Cusick's bluegrass (P.
I had headed south for a go at mulies on a friend's ranch in the scabland canyons adjacent to the Palouse River.
wyomingensis Beetel & Young), Sandberg bluegrass (Poa secunda Presl.), buckwheat (Eriogonum sp.), scabland sagebrush [Artemisia rigida (Nutt.) Gray], Cusick's bluegrass (P.
The closest terrestrial analogue to Ares Vallis is a place called the Channeled Scabland in eastern Washington State.
J Harlen Bretz's wide-ranging field studies along the Columbia River in eastern Washington State from 1910 to 1924 led him to propose that the extensive feature he called the "Channeled Scablands" had been formed by one or more catastrophic floods of proportions neither seen nor imagined by geologists to be possible.