Bretz's Flood: The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood by John Soennichsen Paperback Book

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Rent Bretz's Flood: The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood

Author: John Soennichsen

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: Sasquatch Books

Published: Nov 2009

Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Science & Technology

Retail Price: $19.95

Pages: 304

Synopsis

Channeled Scablands, between Idaho and the Cascades, is a unique landscape of basalt cliffs, dry waterfalls, canyons, and coulees. Legendary geologist J Harlen Bretz was the first to explore the area, starting in the 1920s. This dramatic book tells the story of this scientific maverick — how he came to study the region, his radical theory that a flood of biblical proportions created it, and how a campaign by the mainstream geologic community tried to derail him for pursuing an idea that satellite photos would confirm decades later.

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