The Channeled Scabland of the Columbia Plateau¶
Bretz, J. H. (1923). The Channeled Scabland of the Columbia Plateau. Journal of Geology, 31(8), 617-649.
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- Uniformitarianism
- Naive forward-projection of current rates without critical analysis is not uniformitarianism rightly applied; Bretz's (1923) Channeled Scabland work showed that genuine megaflood events can leave records unrecognizable to a strictly gradualist reading.
This sourceArgues that the Channeled Scabland was carved by catastrophic megafloods (later attributed to Glacial Lake Missoula); historically rejected by uniformitarian geologists as too catastrophic, then vindicated — a canonical case showing that strict uniformitarian extrapolation can mislead when genuine high-intensity events have occurred.
- Naive forward-projection of current rates without critical analysis is not uniformitarianism rightly applied; Bretz's (1923) Channeled Scabland work showed that genuine megaflood events can leave records unrecognizable to a strictly gradualist reading.
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