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.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1923

Link

https://doi.org/10.1086/623053matched

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earth_sciences

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Primes

• 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.

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