J Harlen Bretz
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American geologist who discovered the Missoula Floods
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J Harlen Bretz's Degrees
- PhD Geology University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, J Harlen Bretz was an American geologist, best known for his research that led to the acceptance of the Missoula Floods and for his work on caves. Early life and education Bretz was born on 2 September 1882, in the small town of Saranac in Ionia County, Michigan. He was the first of Oliver Joseph Bretz and Rhoda Maria Howlett's five children. His father was a farmer, and proud descendant of early German settler in Ohio, John Bretz.
J Harlen Bretz's Published Works
Published Works
- The Lake Missoula Floods and the Channeled Scabland (1969) (248)
- The Channeled Scablands of the Columbia Plateau (1923) (237)
- CHANNELED SCABLAND OF WASHINGTON: NEW DATA AND INTERPRETATIONS (1956) (203)
- Vadose and Phreatic Features of Limestone Caverns (1942) (167)
- The Spokane Flood beyond the Channeled Scablands (1925) (117)
- BERMUDA: A PARTIALLY DROWNED, LATE MATURE, PLEISTOCENE KARST (1960) (98)
- Caliche in Southeastern New Mexico (1949) (81)
- The Channeled Scabland of Eastern Washington (1928) (79)
- Bars of Channeled Scabland (1928) (46)
- The stages of Lake Chicago; their causes and correlations (1951) (45)
- : The Morphology of the Earth: A Study and Synthesis of World Scenery (1963) (41)
- Valley Deposits Immediately East of the Channeled Scabland of Washington. II (1929) (40)
- Glacial Drainage on the Columbia Plateau (1923) (40)
- The Dalles Type of River Channel (1924) (37)
- Valley Deposits Immediately West of the Channeled Scabland (1930) (31)
- The Ogallala Formation West of the Llano Estacado (1949) (31)
- Correlation of Glacial Lake Stages in the Huron-Erie and Michigan Basins (1966) (30)
- Carlsbad Caverns and Other Caves of the Guadalupe Block, New Mexico (1949) (30)
- Keewatin end moraines in Alberta, Canada (1943) (26)
- The Grand Coulee (1932) (25)
- Origin of the Filled Sink-Structures and Circle Deposits of Missouri (1950) (22)
- Solution Cavities in the Joliet Limestone of Northeastern Illinois (1940) (22)
- Caves of Missouri (1956) (20)
- Dynamic equilibrium and the Ozark land forms (1962) (15)
- The Juan De Fuca Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet (1920) (11)
- The Late Pleistocene Submergence in the Columbia Valley of Oregon and Washington (1919) (11)
- Genetic relations of caves to peneplains and Big Springs in the Ozarks [Missouri] (1953) (9)
- The Satsop Formation of Oregon and Washington (1917) (9)
- Causes of the Glacial Lake Stages in Saginaw Basin, Michigan (1951) (9)
- Caves of Illinois (1966) (9)
- Caves in the Galena Formation (1938) (9)
- Glacial Lakes of Puget Sound: Preliminary Paper (1910) (9)
- Geology of the Chicago region: Part I. General; Part II. The Pleistocene. (1939) (7)
- The Spokane Flood: A Reply (1927) (6)
- The Double Calumet Stage of Lake Chicago (1959) (5)
- The age of the Spokane glaciation (1924) (5)
- A High-Level Boulder Deposit East of the Laramie Range, Wyoming (1952) (3)
- The Terminal Moraine of the Puget Sound Glacier (1911) (3)
- A Solution Cave in Gypsum (1952) (2)
- Geology of North America (1939) (2)
- Alternative Hypotheses for Channeled Scabland. II (1928) (2)
- Cavern-Making in a Part of the Mexican Plateau (1955) (1)
- MEMORIAL TO HAKON WADELL (1964) (1)
- Correlation of Glacial Lake Stages in the Huron-Erie and Michigan Basins (1964) (1)
- : The Seventh Sense: A Sequel to "Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod" (1954) (0)
- Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod. Kenneth Roberts (1952) (0)
- Geology of the Great Lakes. Jack L. Hough (1959) (0)
- A primer for first-time computer buyers. (1986) (0)
- Economic and Geologic Papers (0)
- Correlation of Glacial Lake Stages in the Huron-Erie and Michigan Basins (1966) (0)
- Introductory chapters, and geology of the stable areas (1939) (0)
- Earth sciences : meteorology, oceanography, geology (1940) (0)
- Rollin Thomas Chamberlin 1881-1948. (1948) (0)
- Relation of Yakima Valley to the channeled scabland [abstracts] (1930) (0)
- Bison-Polished Boulders on the Albertan Great Plains (1946) (0)
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