scablands

British  

/ ˈskæbˌlændz /

plural noun

1. a type of terrain, found for example in the NW US, consisting of bare rock surfaces, with little or no soil cover and scanty vegetation, that have been deeply channelled by glacial flood waters

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Example Sentences

And it threatens rare endemic plants found in rocky scablands, such as Spalding’s catchfly, a federally protected perennial with pale pink, trumpet-shaped flowers.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 3, 2022

But the harsh scablands had proved inhospitable to that invader.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 3, 2022

In scablands overtaken by Ventenata, they found oceans of grass that create fuel loads 50 times greater than in areas free of the species.

From Science Magazine • Aug. 3, 2022

They’ll find plenty of challenges in these channeled scablands, as they’re called because of the way the ice-age floods scoured the soil to expose basalt outcroppings.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 17, 2015

Then he turned north and descended into the Washington scablands, a tortured landscape shaped by a series of cataclysms between twelve and fifteen thousand years ago.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown