What is "scablands"

Usage examples of "scablands".

Some 500 cubic miles of water drained from the lake through the Grand Coulee within a period of about two weeks, scouring the Washington landscape known as the Channeled Scablands and draining into the Pacific through the Columbia Gorge.

If the analogy to the channeled scablands is correct, floods involving water discharges of millions of cubic meters per second and peak flow velocities of tens of meters per second, but lasting perhaps no more than a few days, have occurred on Mars.

When the dams broke through, great torrents had scoured out scablands all the way to the sea.

Nicopolis was a maze of channeled scablands strewn with parts of buildings, broken beams, dislodged boulders, flattened furniture, and slender trees torn from their roots.

Where they disappeared amid the crazed valleys and jumbled boulders of the dusty scablands, the first explorers drew back in defeat, unable to decipher the wild terrain.