Ancient
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Ancient Lake Landscape with
Waterfall, Eastern Washington State
More than 10,000
years ago the Lake Missoula floods created some of the most stunning
land forms on earth - studied by NASA for their similarity to
Martian landscapes. Much of the eastern half of what is now the
state of Washington was scoured down to bedrock by a series of
gargantuan flood events, released from an ancient ice-dammed
glacial lake that once formed in what is now Montana. The resulting
formation of dramatic canyons, coulees, cataracts and flood plains
occurred in a mere matter of days, not the millions of years
once thought. This photo shows one of the pothole lakes that
dot the Ancient Lake Coulee - lakes that were violently scoured
out of bedrock by whirlpools within the furiously swirling floodwaters.
The name given to this landscape is the Channeled Scablands.
This photo was taken looking northwest from within the coulee,
only four miles from the Columbia River.
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