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bretzs flood the remarkable story of a rebel geologist and the worlds greatest flood
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 . bretzs 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 .