Bretz's Flood

The Remarkable Story of a Rebel Geologist and the World's Greatest Flood

John Soennichsen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2009
Sasquatch Books (Verlag)
978-1-57061-631-0 (ISBN)

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"The land between Idaho and the Cascade Mountains is characterized by gullies, coulees, and deserts--in geologic terms, it is a wholly unique place on the earth. Legendary geologist J Harlen Bretz, starting in the 1920s, was the first to explore the area. Bretz, a former science teacher at Franklin High School in Seattle and then a professor at the University of Washington and later the University of Chicago, eventually formed the theory that the land was scoured in a virtual instant by a massive flood. His original thinking was rewarded with various forms of public and academic humiliation. In the mid-twentieth century, his theory sounded a bit too much like the biblical flood, and the scientific world wanting nothing to do with that sort of idea. (Ironically, Bretz was an avowed atheist, so this was hardly his inspiration.) Bretz's Flood tells the dramatic story of this scientific maverick-how he came to study the region, his radical theory that a huge flood created it, and how the mainstream geologic community campaigned to derail him from pursuing an idea that satellite photos would confirm decades later."

"John Soennichsen is the author of Live! From Death Valley. He lives in Cheney, WA."

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.10.2012
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 215 mm
Gewicht	357 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
ISBN-10	1-57061-631-0 / 1570616310
ISBN-13	978-1-57061-631-0 / 9781570616310
Zustand	Neuware