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"The land between Idaho and the Cascade Mountains in Eastern Washington is characterized by dramatic coulees, gullies, and deserts--in geologic terms, it is a wholly unique place on Earth. J. Harlen Bretz was the iconoclastic geologist who peered back in time to answer the riddle of how this land came to be ... He hypothesized that a catastrophic flood--likely the largest in Earth's history--has scoured the land in a virtual instant. Using nothing more than the core tools of observation, hypothesis, and theory, Bretz recognized that the region's bizarre formations and geologic oddities didn't conform to the patterns of a landscape shaped gradually over time. Instead, the scablands looked more like a partially formed, braided river channel that had spread out over several hundred miles--a topography that could only be caused by a sudden rush of an unprecedented volume of water ... [By] the mid-seventies Landsat satellite photography confirmed his findings, and in 1979 he was awarded the Penrose Medal, the Geological Society of America's most prestigious award."--Dust jacket flap.
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Geology, Glacial landforms, uniformitarianism, Geologists, flood, geologist, scabland, Erosion, Biography, Géologues, Biographies, Érosion, Géomorphologie glaciaire, GéologiePeople
J. Harlen Bretz (1882-1981)Times
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Bretz's flood: the remarkable story of a rebel geologist and the world's greatest flood
2008, Sasquatch Books
in English
1570615055 9781570615054
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Bretz's Flood explores the life of geologist J Harlen Bretz, who developed a theory in the 1920s that the dry, rocky and channeled scabland terrain of eastern Washington must have been caused by a cataclysmic flood. The geologic profession loudly rejected his hypothesis, which ran counter to the geologic principle of uniformitarianism and sounded way too Biblical for the profession's elders. But Bretz persisted in promoting and providing facts to support his theory, which was eventually proven correct based on phenomena such as giant ripple marks, and satellite photography that revealed Bretz's flood channels in all their spectacular glory.
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