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

ISBN-13: 9781570616310 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 289 str.

John Soennichsen

Opis

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.