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???
Nice, really nice photos.....hope you stopped to take the pics ☺️☺️
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.
Lovely images. Thanks for sharing.
Nice placing of light in your first photo! Composition is well framed as well. Keep a riding and shooting.
Very nice. Love the contrast between the cliffs and the sky.
Very nice set! Thanks for sharing.
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.
You captured some very nice images of the Columbia River Gorge. The basalt cliffs in this area are awesome to see.
gvarner wrote:
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.
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Thanks for the info gvarner.
Bill
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