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(geology) flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington).

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  • To all appearances, the forest looks healthy -- a green tapestry of ponderosa pine spreading across five square miles of low buttes, ashy scablands, and rocky promontories.
  • Never mind that the wait at both ends and the flight time is more time consuming than a four-hour drive over the “mountains” and through the “scablands” to bubba land.
  • Plant communities present a rich mosaic of grass and shrublands, Garry and California black oak woodlands, juniper scablands, mixed conifer and white fir forests, and...
  • One flood happened when a glacial lake burst its empoundment and created the scablands in Oregon, Another flood happened when the Mediterranean flooded the Black Sea and...
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