Acknowledgments to the First Edition Acknowledgments to the Second Edition Preface Part I: The World of Geology Chapter 1: The Living, Changing Earth Chapter 2: Detecting the Clues to the Past Part II: The Bretz Saga 3: Early Days 4: Too Many Clues? 5: Scars with a Difference: The Channeled Scablands and Gigantic Gravel Bars 6: The Unthinkable Heresy: Catastrophism vs. Uniformitarianism 7: Solving the Jigsaw Puzzle 8: The Great Controversy 9: The Revisionists: Allison, Hodge, and Flint 10: "Unusual Currents": Pardee Breaks the Silence 11: Vindication Part III: The Rest of the Story 12: Major Researchers Since Bretz Part IV: The Landscape Before and After the Missoula Floods 13: Setting the Stage for the Floods: Geology, Life, and Witnessing the Floods 14: During the Cataclysms and Immediately Afterward 15: After the Missoula Floods Part V: Following the Floods from Source to Sea 16: Glacial Lake Missoula and the Purcell Trench Ice-Dam: From Missoula, Montana, to Spokane, Washington 17: Rathdrum Prairie and Glacial Lake Columbia: Gateway to the Scablands: From Pend Oreille to Spokane 18: The Channeled Scablands: Grand Coulee and Moses Coulee 19: The Heart of the Channeled Scablands 20: Lake Lewis Basins 21: Wallula Gap to The Dalles: Lake Condon 22: The Dalles to Portland: The Columbia Gorge 23: The Portland-Vancouver Basin: A Story of Erosion and Deposition from Incoming and Outgoing Flood Waters 24: The Willamette Valley South of Portland and the Tualatin Valley West of Portland 25: Portland to the Pacific Ocean Part VI: Floods from an Even More Distant Past 26: Ancient Cataclysmic Floods Part VII: The Conclusion and the Future 27: The Conclusion But Not the End Appendices and Resources Index About the Authors Ooligan Press Acknowledgements