Channeled Scablands - Palouse River

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鈥淒uring the ice-age floods, this entire scene was submerged beneath hundreds of feet of water,鈥� says geologist Bruce Bjornstad. The Palouse River, shown here, "was hijacked and forced to follow a new route to the Snake River.鈥�
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Desert
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Floods
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Physical geography