Nonfiction / Geology
25 Pages, ......................, 24 Colored Maps
ISBN: 0-910055-11-4
Cloth: $5.00

A traveler entering the State of Washington from the east crosses a flat-to-rolling countryside of deep, fertile soil commonly sown with wheat. Continuing westward, he abruptly enters a deeply scarred land of bare black rock cut by labyrinthine canyons and channels, plunge pools and rock basins, cascade and cataract ledges, displaying ragged buttes and cliffs, alcoves, immense gravel bars, and giant ripple marks. The traveler has reached the starkly scenic "Channeled Scablands," and this dramatic change in the landscape may well cause him to wonder, "What happened here?" The answer: the greatest floods yet documented by man.
 
This publication summarizes the sequence of geologic events that culminated in the so-called Spokane Flood. It was prepared in response to the general interest in geology and the particular interest in the Channeled Scablands often expressed both by residents and by visitors to this part of the State of Washington.