scablands
Britishplural noun
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After lightning sparked a fire near a steep-walled canyon, the blaze unexpectedly raced across scablands so quickly that firefighters struggled to catch up.
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
But the harsh scablands had proved inhospitable to that invader.
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
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