Cataclysms on the Columbia

by Allen, John Eliot

• ISBN13: 9781932010312
• ISBN10: 1932010319
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: Ooligan Pr

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments to the First Edition	p. X
Acknowledgements to the Second Edition	p. XI
Preface	p. XIII
The World of Geology
The Living, Changing Earth	p. 18
Detecting the Clues to the Past	p. 21
The Bretz Saga
Early Days	p. 24
Too Many Clues?	p. 28
Scars with a Difference: The Channeled Scablands and Gigantic Gravel Bars	p. 36
The Unthinkable Heresy: Catastrophism vs. Uniformitarianism	p. 44
Solving the Jigsaw Puzzle	p. 47
The Great Controversy	p. 52
The Revisionists: Allison, Hodge, and Flint	p. 59
"Unusual Currents": Pardee Breaks the Silence	p. 66
Vindication	p. 71
The Rest of the Story
Major Researchers Since Bretz	p. 76
The Landscape Before and After the Missoula Floods
Setting the Stage for the Floods: Geology, Life, and Witnessing the Floods	p. 88
During the Cataclysms and Immediately Afterward	p. 94
After the Missoula Floods	p. 98
Following the Floods From Source to Sea
Glacial Lake Missoula and the Purcell Trench Ice-Dam: From Missoula, Montana, to Spokane, Washington	p. 104
Rathdrum Prairie and Glacial Lake Columbia: Gateway to the Scablands: From Pend Oreille to Spokane	p. 112
The Channeled Scablands: Grand Coulee and Moses Coulee	p. 117
The Heart of the Channeled Scablands	p. 125
Lake Lewis Basins	p. 132
Wallula Gap to The Dalles: Lake Condon	p. 141
The Dalles to Portland: The Columbia Gorge	p. 153
The Portland-Vancouver Basin: A Story of Erosion and Deposition from Incoming and Outgoing Flood Waters	p. 160
The Willamette Valley South of Portland and the Tualatin Valley West of Portland	p. 169
Portland to the Pacific Ocean	p. 181
Floods From an Even More Distant Past
Ancient Cataclysmic Floods	p. 186
The Conclusion and the Future
The Conclusion But Not the End	p. 192
Appendices and Resources	p. 194
Index	p. 201
About the Authors	p. 205
Ooligan Press Acknowledgements	p. 206
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