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Formed by Megafloods, This Place Fooled Scientists for Decades
Geologists couldn't account for the strange landforms of eastern Washington State. Then a high school teacher dared to question the scientif
Hodges, Glenn http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/channeled-scablands/
Publisher: National Geographic
Date Written: 09/03/2017
Year Published: 2017
Resource Type: Article
Geologists couldn't account for the strange landforms of eastern Washington State. Then a high school teacher dared to question the scientific dogma of his day.
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Bretz's research was thorough, and his map of the channeled scablands was so accurate that it's a virtual tracing of modern-day satellite images, creating the immediate impression of channeled floodwaters. But his audience -- none of whom had visited, much less studied, the scablands -- was having none of it. Bretz's hypothesis was not just "wholly inadequate," in the words of one critic, but "preposterous" and "incompetent." Compounding the problem of his unlikely hypothesis was the question of where all this water would have come from, and Bretz had no convincing answer.
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