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Noun: scablands
  1. (geology) flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington)
    "The Channeled Scablands were formed by massive ice age floods"

Type of: ground, land, soil

Part of: Evergreen State, WA, Wash., Washington

Encyclopedia: Scablands