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Scars of Ice Age Floods

Outbursts from Glacial Lake Missoula carved the Channeled Scablands in Washington state.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Scars of Ice Age Floods.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published December 12, 2023
Data acquired May 14, 2023

Source:: Landsat 8 > OLI