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| Acknowledgments to the First Edition | |
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| Acknowledgements to the Second Edition | |
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| Preface | |
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| The World of Geology | |
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| The Living, Changing Earth | |
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| Detecting the Clues to the Past | |
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| The Bretz Saga | |
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| Early Days | |
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| Too Many Clues? | |
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| Scars with a Difference: The Channeled Scablands and Gigantic Gravel Bars | |
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| The Unthinkable Heresy: Catastrophism vs. Uniformitarianism | |
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| Solving the Jigsaw Puzzle | |
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| The Great Controversy | |
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| The Revisionists: Allison, Hodge, and Flint | |
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| "Unusual Currents": Pardee Breaks the Silence | |
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| Vindication | |
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| The Rest of the Story | |
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| Major Researchers Since Bretz | |
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| The Landscape Before and After the Missoula Floods | |
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| Setting the Stage for the Floods: Geology, Life, and Witnessing the Floods | |
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| During the Cataclysms and Immediately Afterward | |
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| After the Missoula Floods | |
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| Following the Floods From Source to Sea | |
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| Glacial Lake Missoula and the Purcell Trench Ice-Dam: From Missoula, Montana, to Spokane, Washington | |
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| Rathdrum Prairie and Glacial Lake Columbia: Gateway to the Scablands: From Pend Oreille to Spokane | |
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| The Channeled Scablands: Grand Coulee and Moses Coulee | |
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| The Heart of the Channeled Scablands | |
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| Lake Lewis Basins | |
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| Wallula Gap to The Dalles: Lake Condon | |
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| The Dalles to Portland: The Columbia Gorge | |
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| The Portland-Vancouver Basin: A Story of Erosion and Deposition from Incoming and Outgoing Flood Waters | |
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| The Willamette Valley South of Portland and the Tualatin Valley West of Portland | |
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| Portland to the Pacific Ocean | |
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| Floods From an Even More Distant Past | |
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| Ancient Cataclysmic Floods | |
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| The Conclusion and the Future | |
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| The Conclusion But Not the End | |
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| Appendices and Resources | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Ooligan Press Acknowledgements | |