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		In fact, it was not until the area was observed from the air that many of the Scabland features were accepted as flood deposits, such as the giant ripples pictured at right, which are up to 30 feet high and 250 feet apart.
		The Channeled Scablands have now been dedicated to Harlen Bretz, and it is commonly known that this area was destroyed by a massive flood catastrophe.
		Although the earth is completely covered in hundreds of feet of flood sediment, they must instead propose that it all accumulated so slowly and gradually that life was able to exist atop that material during its formation.
	www.nwcreation.net /scablands.html (691 words)

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		As the debate continues whether these channels were caused by catastrophic floods, wind, lava or mudflows, it is imperative to examine, in the field, the morpho logic criteria which appears to be diagnostic of catastrophic flooding.
		The basalt was quarried by glacial erosion, and channel complexes in the basalt were produced by the diversion of meltwater streams around blocks of stagnant glacier ice and jams of berg ice.
		Because Bonnevilfe flooding was confined to the Snake River Canyon, it skirted to the south of the Channeled Scabland.
	fax.libs.uga.edu /J84xNASx1x18xCx36/1f/channeled_scabland.txt (13840 words)

	Channeled Scablands Theory
		When he returned to the Seattle area to join the University of Washington faculty in geology and began to study the channeled scablands, he was a recognized expert in the features of stream and glacial erosion.
		It became clear to Bretz that the scablands were not readily explained by either glacial or ordinary stream erosion.
		The Channeled Scablands were attributed to glacial erosion.
	www.spokaneoutdoors.com /scabland.htm (1178 words)

	Channeled Scablands: Overview
		The Scabland channels are cut almost entirely in loess and basalt.
		Beginning in 1923, J. Harlan Bretz began arguing that the curious channeled terrain of Washington State was the result of stupendous floods.
		Loose material carried by the Scablands floods was likewise sculpted into streamlined forms, like this small gravel bar which is only 25 meters high, a kilometer or so long and 200 or so meters wide.
	www.uwsp.edu /geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/VTrips/Scablands0.HTM (1635 words)

	EWU \| The Channeled Scablands
		The unusual belt of channeled scablands that crosses the Palouse in Southeastern Washington was formed by a series of late Pleistocene floods resulting from the abrupt drainage of Lake Missoula.
		The channeled scablands biome includes numerous wetlands, ephemeral ponds and lakes surrounded by Pinus ponderosa forest and savannah.
		Because the bedrock is relatively impermeable, spring flooding occurs regularly, resulting in the formation of temporary bodies of water and recharging of the permanent lakes and ponds.
	www.ewu.edu /x21784.xml (92 words)

	The Channeled Scablands
		South of the Grand Coulee dam, the most interesting scablands feature is the upper Grand Coulee, a channel carved right through solid basalt, some of it down to the underlying granite.
		Quincy Basin, in the western part of the scablands, has huge amounts of gravel covering 500 square miles, at a depth of at least 125 feet.
		His 1923 paper from the Journal of Geology contending that a superflood caused the Channeled Scablands blew the minds of his fellow geologists.
	www.straight-talk.net /evolution/scablands.htm (819 words)

	Channeled scablands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Debate over the origin of the Scablands raged for forty years and is one of the great battles in the history of earth science.
		Bretz, J Harlen (1923), The Channeled Scabland of the Columbia Plateau.
		Bretz, J Harlen (1925), The Spokane flood beyond the Channeled Scablands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Channeled_scablands (500 words)

	Channeled Scablands
		A map of the Channeled Scablands seems to indicate that the water entered from one or a few narrow points to the northeast and drained to the southwest.
		The Channeled Scablands were instead generally attributed to glacial erosion through much of the Twentieth Century.
		Pardeemay had been wrong in his 1922 interpretation of Scabland flood bars, but his 1940 description of giant current ripples (the "ripples" mentioned above) proved to be the key point for convincing skeptics of the cataclysmic flood hypothesis.
	www.dcr.net /~stickmak/JOHT/joht35channeledscablands.htm (1993 words)

	scablands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Channeled Scablands are a bare, isolated part of eastern Washington.
		The scablands of eastern Washington are underlain by basaltic rock that erupted as great sheets of lava between 16-6 million years B.P. This is seen as the dark colored land region in the photo above.
		What makes this region interesting is the patchwork nature of the loess that is interupted by narrow, deep canyons cut into the basalt, large cavities (potholes) in the basalt and regions of boulder accumulations on the basalt surface--these are the scablands.
	geology.ou.edu /~msoreg/G1104/floods/scablands.html (209 words)

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		Since the channels are hundreds of feet deep, this extensive anastomosis indicates that a prodigious amount of water must once have flowed over the divide.
		He argued that the channeled scablands had been formed all at once by a single, gigantic flood of glacial meltwater.
		But when the first good aerial photographs of the scabland were taken, geologists noticed that several areas on the coulee floors are covered with giant stream bed ripples, up to 22 feet high and 425 feet long.
	www.dushkin.com /text-data/articles/18833/18833.mhtml (2477 words)

	Channeled scablands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		DrumHeller Channels The Channeled Scablands are unique geological erosion features in the U.S. state of Washington.
		Debate over the origin of the Scablands raged for forty years and is one of the great battles in the history of geologists.
		The Channeled Scablands have a rectangular cross section and are spread over immense areas of eastern Washington State.
	channeled-scablands.iqnaut.net (350 words)

	Abiogenesis and the Origin of Life
		Planetary Geology Field Trip to the Channeled Scablands 2000 by NASA and the Washington Space Grant Consortium
		The Geology of the Ice Age Floods and Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington
		Field Trip to Mars Overview This virtual field trip compares the Channeled Scablands with Mars in attempt to prove that the Martian topography was also formed by flooding.
	www.nwcreation.net /scablandslinks.html (345 words)

	A response to "J Harlan Bretz: A Heresy Justified"
		Lacking both firsthand field observations and a plausible explanation of the water, skpetics were unwilling to accept a starkly new interpretation." "In the 1930s-1940s, several hypotheses attempted to account for the channeled scablands by mechanisms short of cataclysmic flood.
		The alternative hypotheses included glaciation of the area of the channeled scablands (Hodge, 1934; Hobbs, 1943, 1947), sequential moderate-scale flooding around a succession of hundreds of gigantic ice jams (Hodge, 1934; Allison, 1933, 1941), and liesurely dissection of glaciofluvial fill (Flint, 1938).
		Channeled Scabland of Washington -- new data and interpretations.
	www.geo.ucalgary.ca /~macrae/t_origins/bretz_re.html (1891 words)

	NOVA \| Transcripts \| Mystery of the Megaflood \| PBS
		He claimed the Scablands were not the result of a slow geological evolution, but of an enormous catastrophe that had happened almost overnight.
		Despite the conflict between a catastrophic view of the Scablands and the standard view of gentle continuous change, we now know the truth is somewhere in between.
		VIC BAKER: The Channeled Scabland is one of the most fascinating landscapes, and the tremendous catastrophic floods were probably the most spectacular things that happened on the planet.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/transcripts/3211_megafloo.html (5202 words)

	Channeled Scablands of Eastern Washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Channeled Scablands and the Palouse River (WA) [1]
		The Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington were created 13,000 years ago when catastrophic floods occurred in Lake Missoula.
		Along the main flood channel flows the Palouse River which cuts through the heart of the scablands and through most of the Palouse region.
	www.byways.org /browse/byways/54775/places/62931 (163 words)

	welcome to the inland northwest wildlife council
		C.P. The INWC develops and completes wildlife habitat projects in the channeled scablands of Eastern Washington, in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management (one of the principal single landowners) and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.
		In 2004 the Channeled Scablands Committee has already assisted an Eagle Scout candidate with construction of several large bat nursery boxes (each of which can accommodate dozens of bats and their offspring) for the BLM to install on various sites, and provided several individuals to assist with research observation of mating sage grouse.
		The Channeled Scablands Committee is also supporting and assisting the Upland Bird Committee with guzzler construction projects in our overlapping areas of interest.
	www.wildlifecouncil.com /lincoln.htm (209 words)

	J Harlen Bretz - And the Great Scabland Debate
		One of the most interesting debates in the history of geology has to do with the origins of the Channeled Scabland region in eastern Washington State - so named by J Harlen Bretz because of the region's distinctive channels with intervening "scabs" of loess or soil covering the underlying basaltic rock.
		Also, throughout the scablands Bretz saw huge islands of land protruding from the surrounding landscape with streamlined features as if they were carved by massive torrents of water.
		Flint boldly proposed that the surface form of the scabland flood bars was that of "non-paired stream-cut terraces in various states of dissection." E.
	naturalselection.0catch.com /Files/harlenbretz.html (2724 words)

	The Ice Age Floods Alternatives Study Contacts
		Bretz, J H. The channeled scabland of the Columbia Plateau.
		Bretz, J.H. Channeled Scabland and the Spokane Flood.
		Bretz, J H. The Lake Missoula floods and the channeled scabland.
	www.nps.gov /iceagefloods/contacts.htm (3578 words)

	Field Trip to Mars Page - Channeled Scablands
		Temporary lakes formed in the scablands and silt, sand, and gravel settled out of the water.
		When the river water is very cold and is carrying lots of material, as when the Ice Age floods occurred, the fresh water pushes down and under the sea water and follows channels on the ocean floor.
		At the time of the floods the oceans were about 100 meters lower due to the amount of water frozen in glaciers and ice sheets covering the land.
	www.kidscosmos.org /kid-stuff/mars-trip-scablands.html (995 words)

	Turnbull NWR-Home Page
		The Refuge is situated within the "Channeled Scablands", an area formed by glacial floods at the end of the last ice age.
		The Refuge Environment: Turnbull NWR encompasses approximately 16,000 acres of the Channeled Scablands.
		The combination of basalt outcrops, channeled canyons and ponderosa pine forests infused in a diverse landscape of over 130 marshes, wetlands and lakes, create an environment of aesthetic beauty as well as high quality wildlife habitat.
	www.fws.gov /turnbull/index.html (254 words)

	Selected Bibliography, Washington Fieldtrip
		Bretz, J H., 1923, The Channeled Scablands of the Columbia Plateau: Journal of Geology, v.
		Bretz, J H. 1969, The Lake Missoula floods and the Channeled Scabland: Journal of Geology, v.
		P.C., Baker, V.R., and Kochel, R.C., 1978, New evidence for pre-Wisconsin flooding in the Channeled Scabland of eastern Washington: Geology, v.
	www.library.uiuc.edu /gex/bibs/washstate.html (6529 words)

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		Bretz' major contribution to geology was his study of the channeled scablands, a rugged, heavily scoured section of the Columbia plate in eastern Washington.
		Challenging the gradualist uniformitarianism that had governed previous interpretations of the area, Bretz attributed the topography of the scablands to the action of a sudden, catastrophic flood brought on by the release of waters from glacial Lake Missoula.
		"The Channeled Scablands of the Columbia Plateau," 1923
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /ead/rlg/ICU.SPCL.BRETZ.xml (2049 words)

	CVO Website - Glacial Lake Missoula
		In many ways, the story of the Floods is also the story of J Harlen Bretz (1882-1981), who proposed the theory that the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington, and much of the Northwest as we know it today, were formed by catastrophic flooding.
		Bretz began his field research in the Channeled Scablands of central Washington during the summer of 1922, and it quickly became clear to him that neither glaciation nor ordinary stream erosion explained the Scablands.
		Glacial-outburst waters that crossed the Channeled Scablands during the Spokane floods were channeled through Wallula Gap.
	vulcan.wr.usgs.gov /Glossary/Glaciers/IceSheets/description_lake_missoula.html (4100 words)

	b19 Channeled scablands of eastern Washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In eastern Washington, scabland prehistorical erosion is evidenced by a few widely spaced remnants of an extensive, former, plateau of Pleistocene loess.
		These channels are 70 meters deep and as far apart, and they contain giant ripples up to 15 meters high with spacings between crests of as much as 150 meters.
		In 1923, J Harlen Bretz (1882-1981) interpreted the scabland prehistorical erosion as evidence of a single, gigantic flood that had lasted at most a few days some time between 18,000 and 20,000years ago.
	geowords.com /histbooknetscape/b19.htm (515 words)

	.: Channeled Scablands :. (PHSC 107-02 S'06) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Channeled Scablands located in Eastern Washington have long been a mystery to scientists.
		Varying in size from approximately 20 miles wide to 600 feet deep at the largest areas, scientists now believe that the Scablands are a result of massive flooding that occurred in the area thousands of years ago.
		Scientists have determined that the area is made of two basic materials: loess soil and basalt.
	homepages.dordt.edu /jlvrwrd/phsc.htm (124 words)

	PNW Focus Page 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The geologist J Harlan Bretz first proposed a flood origin for the Channeled Scablands in the 1920s, but it was not until the 1950s and 1960s that his idea was fully accepted.
		At places where the floods emptied from narrower flow channels into wider channels, or in slow eddies on the inside of curve, or where the floods spread out onto open plains, the flowing water slowed down and the larger pieces of sediment were dropped.
		Today in the Channeled Scablands, large chunks of basalt stand near the mouths of coulees that open onto broad basins, marking places where the flood slowed down.
	www.wenval.cc /rdawes/FocusPages/floods.html (1592 words)

	Washington NASA Space Grant Consortium
		Last July, 17 teachers joined planetary scientists and educators on a three-day trip to the Channeled Scablands of central Washington.
		The falls was caused by the collapse of an enormous ice dam which held back the waters of an Ice Age lake then covering a large part of northwestern Montana.
		In 1995, more than 60 engineers, scientists and educators gathered in the Scablands to compare the landscape created by the catastrophic Ice Age floods with the larger Mars flood channel, Ares Vallis.
	www.waspacegrant.org /lpiphotos.html (624 words)

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		He came up with a hypothesis that the Columbia, later renamed as the Channeled Scablands, couldn’t have been formed by age and a slow continuous water flow over the land.
		Then with his explorations of the Scablands and evaluation of the facts; he was able to disprove the current theory which proposed that Scablands were formed by many years of flooding, ice glaciers, and the usual breakdown of rock.
		The truth is that very few of these geologists had been to the Scablands, and they had been there it was only a small section.
	web.pdx.edu /~rocks/diversity/puzzlepieces.doc (728 words)

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