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Posted: 19 Sep 2015


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Dry Falls
Grand Coulee
Channeled Scabland


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Dry Falls

Dry Falls
An enormous dry waterfall in the middle of the Grand Coulee, eastern Washington state, USA, making up the centerpiece of the eponymous state park. It was formed by the gigantic Spokane (a.k.a. Scabland, Missoula) floods during the last ice age, when a glacial dam in what's now northernmost Idaho would collapse periodically. The glacier, a tongue of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, backed up glacial Lake Missoula into the Rocky Mountain trench, and so all that water would suddenly go sloshing across eastern Washington. The floods left behind the Channeled Scabland, a distinctive topography of buttes, coulees (flat-bottomed canyons), channels, closed basins, and enormous ripple deposits.
The lighting in this pic is better than than in the one I'd posted before, from the previous year (inset).

Berny, , Pam J have particularly liked this photo


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 Pam J
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I looked this place up after the last pic.. fascinating !!

Admired in ~ I ❤ Nature
6 years ago.
 slgwv
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Thanks, everyone! Another place that's definitely worth the effort to see if you're in the area.
6 years ago.
 slgwv
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Thanks, Laurentiu & Ruth! Yes, J. Harlan Bretz lived to see his ideas completely vindicated.
5 years ago.

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