The Giant Flood That Rewrote Geology
April 8, 2025
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as posted by the channelIn the 1920s, J Harlen Bretz was ridiculed for suggesting a massive flood carved the Pacific Northwest. But he was right.
Lake Missoula—held back by ice—burst free, unleashing a torrent that tore through the Columbia River Gorge with tornado-like turbulence, carving canyons in days.
What Bretz called a “recessional cataract”… was a fossil of catastrophe.
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