Channeled Scablands - Palouse Falls

A waterfall plunges over a canyon wall into a pool

Photo By/Credit

Michael Melford/National Geographic Society

Date Shot/Created

03/27/2023

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Plummeting nearly 200 feet, Palouse Falls is a trickle compared to the megafloods that carved this canyon and shaped the surrounding landscape of eastern Washington State.

Subject tags

Floods

Geology

Physical geography

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