A review by se_wigget
Cataclysms on the Columbia: The Great Missoula Floods by Scott Burns, Marjorie Burns, John Eliot Allen

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

 

In the early twentieth century, J. Harlen Bretz was a geologist who walked around what were believed to be glacial formations carved through mountains and valleys in the states of Oregon and Washington. He took detailed notes and observed rock patterns from Spokane to Portland, Oregon… and concluded that a huge prehistoric flood created the canyon called the Scablands. This was completely at odds with the beliefs of established geologists of the time, and he knew this, but he stood up for truth anyway. This book proves to be not only a scientific study but also a riveting drama.