Author:Jerry Harlen Bretz

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Jerry Harlen Bretz
(1882–1981)

American geologist who discovered the Missoula Floods (1882–1981); also known as J Harlen Bretz.

Jerry Harlen Bretz

Works[edit]

  • Field Work in Botany for the Winter Season, Seventh Report of the Michigan Academy of Science, JH Bretz, pgs.164-168 (Mei 5, 1905)([External link])
  • GLACIAL LAKES OF PUGET SOUND, Bretz, The Journal of Geology, v. 18 1910, pgs. 448-458 (External link)
  • The Terminal Moraine of the Puget Sound Glacier, Bretz (1911) (IA)
  • Glaciation of the Puget Sound Region, J. Harlen Bretz (1913) (External link)
  • The Satsop Formation of Oregon and Washington, Bretz (1917) (IA)
  • The late Pleistocene submergence in the Columbia Valley of Oregon and Washington, JH Bretz - The Journal of Geology, 1919 (External link)
  • The Juan de Fuca lobe of the Cordilleran ice sheet, JH Bretz - The Journal of Geology (1920) (External link)
  • Glacial Drainage on the Columbia Plateau, Bulletin of the Geological Society of America v. 34 (IA) , Pgs. 573-608 (September 30, 1923) (External link)
  • THE CHANNELED SCABLANDS OF THE COLUMBIA PLATEAU, Bretz (1923) The Journal of Geology, v. 31, No. 8 (1923), pgs. 617-649 (External link)
  • The Dalles Type of River Channel in The Journal of Geology Volume 32, Number 2 (Feb. - Mar., 1924) (External link)
  • Modern Conceptions of Earth History in The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Mar., 1924), pp. 239-256 (18 pages) (External link)
  • Age of the Spokane glaciation, Bretz The American Journal of Science v. 8 (October, 1924) (External link)
  • THE SPOKANE FLOOD BEYOND THE CHANNELED SCABLANDS in The Journal of Geology Volume 33, Issue 2 (Feb. - Mar., 1925) Pages 97-192 (1925) (External link)
  • The Spokane Flood: A Reply, JH Bretz - The Journal of Geology (1927) (External link)
  • Alternative hypotheses for Channeled Scabland. I,in The Journal of Geology Volume 36, Number 3 (Apr. - May, 1928) (External link)
  • The Channeled Scabland of Eastern Washington in Geographical Review Vol. 18, No. 3 (Jul., 1928), pp. 446-477 (40 pages) (1928) (External link)
  • Bars of Channeled Scabland , Bretz (1928) (External link)
  • Valley Deposits Immediately East of the Channeled Scabland of Washington. I, JH Bretz - The Journal of Geology, v. 37, Number 5 (Jul. - Aug., 1929) (External link)
  • Valley deposits immediately west of the Channeled Scabland, in The Journal of Geology Volume 38, Number 5 (Jul. - Aug., 1930) (External link)
  • The United States during the Ice Age in The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Aug., 1932), pp. 174-176 (3 pages) (External link)
  • Caves in the Galena formation in The Journal of Geology Volume 46, Number 6 (Aug. - Sep., 1938) (External link)
  • "Geology of the Chicago region." , Bretz, J. Harlen (1939) (External link)
  • Solution cavities in the Joliet limestone of northeastern Illinois in The Journal of Geology Volume 48, Number 4 (May - Jun., 1940) (External link)
  • Vadose and Phreatic Features of Limestone Caverns - The Journal of Geology Volume 50, Number 6, Part 2 (Aug. - Sep., 1942) (External link)
  • Keewatin end moraines in Alberta, Canada in GSA Bulletin (1943) 54 (1): 31–52. (External link)
  • Carlsbad Caverns and other caves of the Guadalupe block, New Mexico in The Journal of Geology v. 57, Number 5 (Sep., 1949) (External link)
  • Caliche in Southeastern New Mexico in The Journal of Geology Volume 57, Number 5 (Sep., 1949) (External link)
  • The Ogallala Formation West of the Llano Estacado, J. Harlen Bretz and Leland Horberg, The Journal of Geology v. 57, Number 5 (Sep., 1949) (External link)
  • Origin of the filled sink-structures and circle deposits of Missouri in GSA Bulletin (1950) 61 (8): 789–834 (External link)
  • The stages of Lake Chicago; their causes and correlations, JH Bretz - American Journal of Science, 1951 - (External link)
  • A high-level boulder deposit east of the Laramie Range, Wyoming, JH Bretz, L Horberg - The Journal of Geology (1952) (External link)
  • Genetic relations of caves to peneplains and Big Springs in the Ozarks [Missouri], JH Bretz - American journal of Science (1953) (External link)
  • CHANNELED SCABLAND OF WASHINGTON: NEW DATA AND INTERPRETATIONS in GSA Bulletin (1956) (External link)
  • Caves of Missouri. Vol. 39. State of Missouri, Department of Business & Administration, Bretz, J. Harlen (1956) (External link)
  • The double Calumet stage of Lake Chicago,JH Bretz - The Journal of Geology (1959) (External link)
  • BERMUDA: A PARTIALLY DROWNED, LATE MATURE, PLEISTOCENE KARST in GSA Bulletin (1960) (External link)
  • Dynamic equilibrium and the Ozark land forms, JH Bretz - American Journal of Science (1962)
  • The Lake Missoula Floods and the Channeled Scabland in The Journal of Geology Volume 77, Number (5 Sep., 1969) (External Link)

Field Notes[edit]


Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1981, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 42 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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