Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-191) and index.
Contents:
30. Dusting off the crystal ball : could it happen again? 2. A window into the past : a visit to Glacial Lake Missoula -- 3. A heretic in the scablands : J. Harlen Bretz and his humongous flood -- 4. Where did the water come from? : J.T. Pardee returns to Glacial Lake Missoula -- 5. Hard and distinctive bedrock : belt rocks -- 6. The once and repeating ice dam : several dozen lakes -- 7. Setting the stage for the big spectacle : the Little Bitterroot Valley -- 8. A question of scale : the giant ripples of Camas Prairie -- 9. A most extraordinary basin : Rainbow Lake -- 10. Ice, water, and a river : the Mission Valley, the Jocko Valley, and the Flathead River -- 11. The unscathed valleys : the Bitterroot and Missoula Valleys -- 12.The tightest squeeze : Hellgate Canyon and the Saddle North of Mount Jumbo -- 13. The water route to paradise : down the Clark Fork River to the Flathead River -- 14. Taking the measure of the drainage currents : the Clark Fork River between Paradise and Sandpoint -- 15. Gateway to the Scablands : Rathdrum Prairie -- 16. Floods of basalt : lava flows and crustal arches -- 17. Moses Coulee : Okanogan ice and Glacial Lake Columbia -- 18. The grandaddy Scablands : the Cheney-Palouse and Telford-Crab Creek Floodways -- 19. Regulating Glacial Lake Columbia : Grand Coulee -- 20. The shortcut to the Snake River : the Palouse river, Palouse Falls, and Washtucna Coulee -- 21. The gathering of the waters : beyond the Cheney-Palouse Scabland -- 22. The grand emptying : floodwater exits the Quincy Basin -- 23. A patchwork of valleys : Lake Lewis -- 24. The archives of the floods : the Touchet formation -- 25. The way west : through Wallula Gap and into Lake Condon -- 26. Another tight squeeze : the Columbia Gorge -- 27. A sudden rush of water : scouring through Portland -- 28. The inland bay : floods in the Willamette Valley -- 29. The last lap : on to the Pacific Ocean -- 30. Dusting off the crystal ball : could it happen again?
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