OCTOBER 2022
PALOUSE - INFRARED We are still in the Palouse this month. Last month was in color, but this month in infrared. Last month I added some infrared images for comparison.This month I have added another infrared image, as well as another color image. On our trip to the Palouse we also visited The Scablands. This area is between the Washington State Cascade mountain range, to the west, and the wheat fields of the Palouse to the east. It is very different from either! The Scablands is a vast, scarred, desert area formed by mega-floods coming from Montana during the Ice Age. Large lakes formed at the base of glaciers as they began to melt. As the glaciers melted, these lakes were formed and held back by ice dams. As the weather warmed, the water broke free and sent devastating mega-floods all the way to the Pacific Ocean. This repeated flooding caused the formation of the Scablands and the Columbia gorge. A quick google search for Scablands will find l...