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The formation of the Grand Coulee remained a mystery for many years, until J Harlen Bretz proved that the Columbia River basin was the site of huge floods 15,000 years ago that created the landscape we see today.
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Cataclysms On the Columbia : A Layman's Guide to the Features Produced By the Catastrophic Bretz Floods in the Pacific Northwest Scenic Trips to the Northwest's Geologic Past ; No. 2
author
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Allen, John Eliot.; Burns, Marjorie.; Sargent, Sam C.
publisher
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Timber Press, Inc.
isbn10 | asin
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0881922153
print isbn13
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9780881922158
ebook isbn13
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9780585351681
language
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English
subject
Bretz, J. Harlen,--1882-1981, Erosion--Columbia Plateau, Glacial landforms--Columbia Plateau, Geology--Columbia Plateau, Geomorphology--Columbia River Valley.
publication date
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1991
lcc
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GB401.5.A45 1991eb
ddc
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551.41
subject
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Bretz, J. Harlen,--1882-1981, Erosion--Columbia Plateau, Glacial landforms--Columbia Plateau, Geology--Columbia Plateau, Geomorphology--Columbia River Valley.
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Cataclysms on the Columbia
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J Harlen Bretz, in his prime, typically wearing hard hat and field clothes, and filling his pipe with Edgeworth. Mt. Rushmore in the background. He titled this photo himself, "Five great men in one picturefour of them don't show." This must have been during the late '40s or early '50s.
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Scenic Trips to the Northwest's Geologic PastNo. 2
Cataclysms on the Columbia
A Layman's Guide to the Features Produced by the Catastrophic Bretz Floods in the Pacific Northwest
by John Eliot Allen Marjorie Burns with Samuel C. Sargent
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DEDICATION This book is dedicated to J Harlen Bretz,* who gave us a new concept and taught us ever so patiently that catastrophic floods may sometimes be a part of Mother Nature's repertoire. S.C.S.
Cover illustration: View across the Columbia River towards Mount Adams from above Rowena Dell, a few miles west of The Dalles. Here the floods were more than 900 feet deep, overtopping and scouring off the plateaus in the foreground, and rising well above the cliffs across the river. Photograph copyright James O. Holloway.
Front inside cover illustration: View of the Channeled Scablands region, about 13,225 square miles in area, taken on August 31, 1972, by the first NASA Earth Resources Technology Satellite [(ERTS-1) now called Landsat] from an altitude of 569 miles. The dark "braided" pattern depicts the channelways of the Great Spokane Floodsthe areas where vigorous stream erosion stripped away the "frosting" of loess to expose underlying dark basalt. The Columbia and Spokane rivers are at the top of the picture; the Snake River is at the lower right.
1986 by Timber Press, Inc. All rights reserved Reprinted 1991, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1999
ISBN 0-88192-215-3 (paperback) Printed in Hong Kong
TIMBER PRESS, INC. The Haseltine Building 133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450 Portland, Oregon 97204, U.S.A. 1-800-327-5680 (U.S.A. and Canada only)
* Recipient in 1979 of the Penrose Medal, the highest award of the Geological Society of America.
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