Monday, June 24, 2013

Palouse River Canyon


At the end of the last great ice age, 15,000 to 13,000 years ago, the Missoula Floods, carrying volumes of waters three times as great as the current flow of the Amazon River, swept from Montana to the sea, ripping away the soil and exposing the massive basalt flows of eastern Washington state, forming the Channeled Scablands you see here.

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