Geologists believe massive floods carved out this canyon and others in the Scablands. Glenn Traver via Getty Images The Earth seems to change slowly. Continents shift by about half an inch in a year.

Remnant of a lost landscape, this island of ancient soil—crowned by a crop of wheat—survived the ice-age floods that sculpted the region known today as the Channeled Scablands. In the middle ...

This video explores the Channeled Scablands of eastern Washington, a landscape dramatically sculpted by cataclysmic Ice Age floods. It delves into the geological evidence of these megafloods and the ...

What triggered these cataclysmic floods, and could they strike again? In the Channeled Scablands of Washington State, the level prairie gives way to bizarre, gargantuan rock formations.

The region is a geological example of a landscape formed by mega-floods. The Scablands floods took place thousands of years ago, when glacial lakes in Idaho drained into the area. To a geologist ...

In this interview, geologist and scablands expert Vic Baker of the University of Arizona talks about what it would have been like to witness the flood, what such floods are teaching us about Mars ...

After two summers spent hiking all over Eastern Washington, the University of Chicago geology professor theorized that the Scablands were formed by cataclysmic floods. “The largest flood in the ...

when J Harlen Bretz proposed that the scablands resulted from a catastrophic flood, not eons of gradual erosion. The idea didn't gain mainstream acceptance until the 1960s. Since then, geologists ...

Washington scablands: Hundreds of square miles of Washington State were gouged by the great Missoula Floods 15,000 years ago. (Credit: Edmund Lowe Photography ...

The scablands are adorned by these out-of-place rocks that were deposited from hundreds of miles away by ice-age floods or carried to their new homes by floating icebergs. But in Yeager Rock’s ...

New research suggests climate change increases the likelihood of a massive California "megaflood," akin to the Great Flood of 1862. That disaster, brought on by more than 40 days of constant rain ...