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Glacial Lake Misssoula: And Its Humongous Floods

Glacial Lake Misssoula: And Its Humongous Floods

Alt, David

Paperback

GeologyWest

Publisher Price: $15.00

ISBN10: 0878424156
ISBN13: 9780878424153
Publisher: Geological Society of America
Published: Jun 15 2001
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
As geologist J. Harlen Bretz walked the dry scabland channels of eastern Washington in the 1920s, it dawned on him that he was viewing a landscape sculpted by water. Lots of water. A flood of catastrophic proportions. Glacial Lake Missoula and Its Humongous Floods tells the gripping tale of a huge Ice Age lake that drained suddenly--not just once but repeatedly--and reshaped the landscape of the Northwest. The narrative follows the path of the floodwaters as they raged from western Montana across the Idaho Panhandle, then scoured through eastern Washington and down the Columbia Gorge to the Pacific Ocean. This is also the story of geologists grappling with scientific controversy--of how personalities, pride, and prejudice sometimes superseded scientific evidence.

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