How to pronounce “scabland” in English

This was the missing megaflood that carved the Channeled Scablands.

A short road trip east of Seattle will get you here: the Channeled Scablands.

From this evidence, he concluded that a massive flood— maybe the largest ever— had carved the scablands in mere days.

Over the years, Bretz observed that some parts of the scablands seemed more weathered than others.

So in a way, both Bretz and his skeptics were right: water sculpted the Channeled Scablands, in ways both fast and slow.

*Guitar riff* In 1909, when J. Harlen Bretz started asking geologists about how the scablands came to look like that, they didn’t have an answer.