{"id":4855,"date":"2011-05-27T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T11:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=4855"},"modified":"2011-05-26T20:49:34","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T01:49:34","slug":"unusual-flood-typologies-ii-scabland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/05\/unusual-flood-typologies-ii-scabland\/","title":{"rendered":"unusual flood typologies ii: scabland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4856\" title=\"scabland\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/scabland.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"745\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[The unusual agricultural pattern of eastern Washington&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/geo\/projects\/geoweb\/participants\/dutch\/vtrips\/Scablands0.HTM\">&#8220;channeled scablands&#8221;<\/a> can be traced to a (series of) massive glacial outburst flood(s) which cut the\u00a0deep into the region&#8217;s volcanic basalt, leaving fertile plateaus and barren, rocky valleys. \u00a0Mammoth looked at that event, the Missoula Floods, in a post last year, <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2010\/02\/a-glacier-is-a-very-long-event\/\">&#8220;a glacier is a very long event&#8221;<\/a>. \u00a0(You&#8217;ll want to scroll down to &#8220;Jokulhlaups&#8221;.) \u00a0We might add that, if contemporary land use patterns are determined by Ice Age floods, a flood can also be a very long event.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[The unusual agricultural pattern of eastern Washington&#8217;s &#8220;channeled scablands&#8221; can be traced to a (series of) massive glacial outburst flood(s) which cut the\u00a0deep into the region&#8217;s volcanic basalt, leaving fertile plateaus and barren, rocky valleys. \u00a0Mammoth looked at that event, the Missoula Floods, in a post last year, &#8220;a glacier is a very long event&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,594],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-floods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4863,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions\/4863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}