Canyons (IMAGE)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Canyons

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View of one of the canyons in Washington state, U.S., where the enormous Missoula floods once drained through as they flowed to the Pacific ocean. These steep walls were carved as floods plucked away at columnar basalt.

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(Photo courtesy of Tamara Pico, California Institute of Technology)

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