Cataclysms on the Columbia: The Great Missoula Floods (OpenBook)

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.

• The Pacific Northwest: An Interpretive History (Revised and Enlarged Edition)
• Roadside Geology of Washington
• Washington's Channeled Scablands Guide: Explore and Recreate Along the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail
• Bretz's Flood: The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood
• A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia (Revised and Updated)
• On the Trail of the Ice Age Floods: A Geological Field Guide to the Mid-Columbia Basin
• Glacial Lake Missoula and Its Humongous Floods
• Social Science Theory for Environmental Sustainability: A Practical Guide (Techniques in Ecology & Conservation)
• GigaFlood: The Largest of the Lake Missoula Floods In Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington
• Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World