Channeled Scablands - Mesa Top

Crops of wheat growing on the top of a flood-carved mesa are a green contrast to the surrounding drier landscape.
Photo By/Credit
Michael Melford/National Geographic Society
Date Shot/Created
03/27/2023
Media Usage Rights/License
Copyrighted, All Rights Reserved - Used by Permission
Image
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.
Subject tags
Floods
Geology
Physical geography