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Aug 15, 2026 inhistory

J. Harlen Bretz, a geologist ridiculed for claiming the Pacific Northwest was carved by a catastrophic Ice Age flood. NASA satellite proved him right in the 1970s. He received geology's highest honor at 96 and said "All my enemies are dead, so I have no one to gloat over." (picture c.1906)

J. Harlen Bretz, a geologist ridiculed for claiming the Pacific Northwest was carved by a catastrophic Ice Age flood. NASA satellite proved him right in the 1970s. He received geology's highest honor at 96 and said "All my enemies are dead, so I have no one to gloat over." (picture c.1906)

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