Some have been pilloried for what they thought, none more than J Harlen Bretz, a geologist who spent most of his career at the University of Chicago and did extensive field work in the flood area.

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then dropped them on the landscape J Harlen Bretz, a former Seattle high school teacher and dogged professional geologist, was fascinated by the unusual topography and geology of Eastern Washington.

Bjornstad: The original idea of the ice age floods came from J. Harlen Bretz. Bjornstad: Well, at first, back in Bretz’s time, most people believed that the present is the key to the past and ...

J Harlen Bretz was a science teacher in Seattle in the early 1900s, and he happened to see this new USGS map of this region that we're standing in right now, the Quincy Quadrangle. This is ...

But geologists didn’t figure out how the region formed until 100 years ago, when J Harlen Bretz published his second paper on the region in late 1923. Bretz began exploring the Scablands in 1922 ...

In the 1920s, the famed scabland geologist J Harlen Bretz coined the term "the Spokane Flood" to describe this very torrent. Bretz wasn't yet sure of the cause or source of the epic flood ...

“The region is unique: let the observer take wings of the morning to the uttermost parts of the earth: he will nowhere find its likeness,” wrote J Harlen Bretz, the geologist who first ...

Just as Chambers was working on his lake sediments, a paper by J. Harlen Bretz was published. Bretz spent much of his career studying the Scablands of Eastern Washington. He fought against ...

“The last time the Blue Island area was mapped was by J Harlen Bretz from the University of Chicago in the 1920s and ’30s,” Phillips said. “Bretz was a legend in geology, and he did a very ...