Cataclysms on the Columbia
The Great Missoula Floods| By: | John Eliot Allen; Marjorie Burns; Scott Burns |
| Publisher: | Ooligan Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9781932010312 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781932010466 |
| Edition: | 2 |
| Copyright: | 2019 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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Cataclysms on the Columbia tells two stories. One follows geological research that challenged the scientific paradigm of the early 20th century, and the other chronicles the result of that research: the discovery of powerful prehistoric floods that shaped the Pacific Northwest. The cataclysms at the end of the last Ice Age left a scabland of buttes, dry falls, and rocky gorges, but it took the detective work of geologist J Harlen Bretz to prove it to the world. His lifetime of research and unshakeable belief changed geology forever.