Preface | p. vii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
1 Truly an Inland Sea: Glacial Lake Missoula | p. 7 |
2 A Window into the Past: A Visit to Glacial Lake Missoula | p. 11 |
3 A Heretic in the Scablands: J Harlen Bretz and His Humongous Flood | p. 15 |
4 Where Did the Water Come From? J. T. Pardee Returns to Glacial Lake Missoula | p. 21 |
5 Hard and Distinctive Bedrock: Belt Rocks | p. 23 |
6 The Once and Repeating Ice Dam: Several Dozen Lakes | p. 25 |
7 Setting the Stage for the Big Spectacle: The Little Bitterroot Valley | p. 33 |
8 A Question of Scale: The Giant Ripples of Camas Prairie | p. 37 |
9 A Most Extraordinary Basin: Rainbow Lake | p. 41 |
10 Ice, Water, and a River: The Mission Valley, the Jocko Valley, and the Flathead River | p. 49 |
11 The Unscathed Valleys: The Bitterroot and Missoula Valleys | p. 59 |
12 The Tightest Squeeze: Hellgate Canyon and the Saddle North of Mount Jumbo | p. 65 |
13 The Water Route to Paradise: Down the Clark Fork River to the Flathead River | p. 73 |
14 Taking the Measure of the Drainage Currents: The Clark Fork River between Paradise and Sandpoint | p. 81 |
15 Gateway to the Scablands: Rathdrum Prairie | p. 87 |
16 Floods of Basalt: Lava Flows and Crustal Arches | p. 95 |
17 Moses Coulee: Okanogan Ice and Glacial Lake Columbia | p. 99 |
18 The Grandaddy Scablands: The Cheney-Palouse and Telford--Crab Creek Floodways | p. 109 |
19 Regulating Glacial Lake Columbia: Grand Coulee | p. 115 |
20 The Shortcut to the Snake River: The Palouse River, Palouse Falls, and Washtucna Coulee | p. 123 |
21 The Gathering of the Waters: Beyond the Cheney-Palouse Scabland | p. 129 |
22 The Grand Emptying: Floodwater Exits the Quincy Basin | p. 133 |
23 A Patchwork of Valleys: Lake Lewis | p. 143 |
24 The Archives of the Floods: The Touchet Formation | p. 147 |
25 The Way West: Through Wallula Gap and into Lake Condon | p. 151 |
26 Another Tight Squeeze: The Columbia Gorge | p. 159 |
27 A Sudden Rush of Water: Scouring through Portland | p. 167 |
28 The Inland Bay: Floods in the Willamette Valley | p. 171 |
29 The Last Lap: On to the Pacific Ocean | p. 177 |
30 Dusting Off the Crystal Ball: Could It Happen Again? | p. 179 |
Epilogue | p. 181 |
Glossary | p. 183 |
Selected Bibliography | p. 185 |
Index | p. 193 |