{"id":10363,"date":"2017-03-12T16:18:26","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T20:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=10363"},"modified":"2017-03-12T16:20:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T20:20:04","slug":"national-geographic-channeled-scablands-of-washington-show-the-power-of-rapid-changes-in-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/03\/national-geographic-channeled-scablands-of-washington-show-the-power-of-rapid-changes-in-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"National Geographic: Channeled Scablands of Washington show the power of rapid changes due to climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love geology! \u00a0Growing up in Michigan I could see evidence of past ice ages all around me. \u00a0It&#8217;s a little trickier to see evidence in the Southeast, but there are a few examples here. \u00a0But one of the most widespread evidence of an Ice Age climate catastrophe can be found in eastern Washington, where the &#8220;scablands&#8221; was determined after many years to have been caused by a series of massive floods released when ice dams broke and spilled vast quantities of glacial meltwater down the Columbia River valley, washing away many fertile areas and leaving just isolated islands of good cropland behind. \u00a0<em>National Geographic<\/em> has a wonderful story about how the mystery of the scablands was solved, along with some fantastic pictures which show evidence for the great floods. \u00a0You can read it at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2017\/03\/channeled-scablands\/\">https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2017\/03\/channeled-scablands\/<\/a>. \u00a0Not all effects of climate change move slowly!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10364\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10364\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/scablands-MM8155_130512_6280.ngsversion.1489097020520.adapt_.590.1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10364\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/scablands-MM8155_130512_6280.ngsversion.1489097020520.adapt_.590.1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/scablands-MM8155_130512_6280.ngsversion.1489097020520.adapt_.590.1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/scablands-MM8155_130512_6280.ngsversion.1489097020520.adapt_.590.1-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/03\/scablands-MM8155_130512_6280.ngsversion.1489097020520.adapt_.590.1.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10364\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carved by repeated flooding, a horseshoe-shaped canyon called Potholes Coulee lies along the Columbia River. Raging water dropped 850 feet in less than three miles here, stripping away topsoil and eroding the underlying basalt.<br \/>PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL MELFORD, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love geology! \u00a0Growing up in Michigan I could see evidence of past ice ages all around me. \u00a0It&#8217;s a little trickier to see evidence in the Southeast, but there are a few examples here. \u00a0But one of the most widespread evidence of an Ice Age climate catastrophe can be found in eastern Washington, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":10364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10366,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10363\/revisions\/10366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}