Cataclysms on the Columbia
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John Eliot Allen coauthored the first edition of Cataclysms on the Columbia with Marjorie Burns. He was Professor Emeritus of Geology at Portland State University, a lifelong student of the Columbia Gorge, and author of The Magnificent Gateway, a detailed guide to its geology. He passed away on December 17, 1996, at the age of 88 following an illustrious career as a field geologist, professor, and writer. All three of the authors are native Oregonians.
Marjorie Burns is an author, traveler, and lover of minor adventures, as well as Professor Emeritus at Portland State University. Her main area of expertise is nineteenth-century British literature, though she has also published extensively on J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction and scholarship. She lives with her husband in Washington State at the base of a Cascade volcano and rock climbs, cycles, or kayaks when she's freed from writing and work.
Scott Burns is a professor of geology at Portland State University with research interests that include engineering geology, environmental geology, soils, landslides, geomorphology, and Quaternary geology. When not teaching, he serves on various geological committees and has written numerous articles, chapter contributions, and books. He has taught in Switzerland, New Zealand, Washington, Colorado, and Louisiana before coming home to Oregon. His first book was Environmental, Groundwater, and Engineering Geology: Applications from Oregon (1998). At PSU he has received the Distinguished Faculty Award and the George C. Hoffman Award.
Content
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