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Channeled Scabland

geological feature, North America

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Pleistocene glacier flooding

  • Morocco
    In valley: Misfit streams

    …ways known collectively as the Channeled Scabland was formed. Because preglacial valleys were filled to overspilling, this process is really an example of stream overfitness. Numerous diagnostic landforms, including great cataracts, characterize the Channeled Scabland.

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  • Wisconsin glaciation
    In Pleistocene Epoch: Fluvial environments

    …this type occurred in the Channeled Scabland of the Columbia Plateau region in eastern Washington state. Ice tongues flowing south from the Cordilleran Ice Sheet periodically dammed the Clark Fork River, forming glacial Lake Missoula. At times, Lake Missoula stretched more than 200 km (124 miles) upvalley and was about…

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