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Tuesday's postcard, and how Washington embraced geologist J Harlen Bretz

Tuesday's postcard, and how Washington embraced geologist J Harlen Bretz

October 17, 2023

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Autumn at Steamboat Rock, in Upper Grand Coulee

A bold geologist’s hundred year-old bootprints on our region

This year is the hundredth anniversary of one of the great papers of American earth science: J Harlen Bretz’s 1923 article, Channeled Scablands of the Columbia Plateau, published in the Journal of Geology. It was the result of two summers worth of …

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