Channeled Scablands - Babcock Bench

Aerial photo of a landscape channeled by ancient floods into many smaller plateaus.

Photo By/Credit

Michael Melford/National Geographic Society

Date Shot/Created

03/27/2023

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Floodwaters scoured this chaotic labyrinth of channels into the bedrock of Babcock Bench, perched 600 feet above the Columbia River.

Subject tags

Floods

Geology

Physical geography

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