Scablands of Washington State 5-16-18
May 25, 2018 08:21:17 #
ken patton
Loc: Portland, OR
Nice shots! I too have lived in Washington state and have never heard the term "scablands". Looks like the area close to the Tri City's.....Columbia/Snake river interchange???
May 25, 2018 08:41:21 #
Nice, really nice photos.....hope you stopped to take the pics ☺️☺️
May 25, 2018 09:04:51 #
gvarner
Loc: Central Oregon Coast
It's a beautiful and mysterious place, formed 10's of 1000's of years ago through a series of floods from Ancient Lake Missoula. Hope you got to see the Dry Falls of the Columbia. The cliffs are a couple hundred feet high and the flood waters flowed 300' above them. The flood waters were a couple hundred feet deep at Portland OR and scoured out the grandeur of the Culumbia River Gorge. The rich soil deposits in the Willamette Valley came from the Scablands in Eastern Washington. It was truly an epic event in our distant past.
May 25, 2018 10:11:14 #
Radioactive wrote:
Just got back from a trip to the Scablands. Temps were in the upper 90's and I was on my motorcycle. All pics taken with a Nikon d810 and Nikon 24-120 F4 lens.
gorgeous work!
May 25, 2018 10:47:55 #
May 25, 2018 11:15:04 #
Nice placing of light in your first photo! Composition is well framed as well. Keep a riding and shooting.
May 25, 2018 11:41:02 #
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May 25, 2018 13:12:33 #
gvarner
Loc: Central Oregon Coast
dandev wrote:
Nice photos. I live in WA State and have never heard the term scablands. Where is that? It looks like the Columbia river.
They're mainly west of Spokane over to Coulee Dam and cover several hundred square miles. Google up Ancient Lake Missoula and it's glacial floods. They also created the Dry Falls of the Columbia and the Palouse River's Palouse Falls which is north of the Tri Cities, and they backed up the Snake River for miles above its junction with the Columbia. There were about 40 flood events as glaciers blocked the outlet of Ancient Lake Missoula until it overflowed and released a torrent that was several hundred feet deep. The ancient lake formed along the valleys of the Clark Fork River in Montana.
May 25, 2018 13:50:30 #
May 25, 2018 16:03:37 #
JFCoupe
Loc: Kent, Washington
You captured some very nice images of the Columbia River Gorge. The basalt cliffs in this area are awesome to see.
May 25, 2018 18:21:32 #
yssirk123 wrote:
Nice shots - especially the first image!
Thank you yssrk123.
May 25, 2018 18:22:27 #
Blaster34 wrote:
Nice, really nice photos.....hope you stopped to take the pics ☺️☺️
Thank you Blaster.
May 25, 2018 18:23:41 #
gvarner wrote:
It's a beautiful and mysterious place, formed 10's... (show quote)
Thanks for the info gvarner.
Bill
May 25, 2018 18:24:16 #
Keven wrote:
Very nice. Love the contrast between the cliffs and the sky.
Thank you Kevin.
Bill
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