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Two suggestions.. (I cannot testify to availability in bookstores or libraries) McKee, Bates: Cascadia McGrawHill, 1972 ISBN 07-045133-8 This is a beautifully illustrated book, nice maps, and while no longer completely up-to-date would be a good introduction. Allen, John Eliot; and Burns & Sargeant: Cataclysms on the Columbia. Timber Press (Portland), 1987 ISBN 0-88192-076-3 Challenges the long held diastrophism theories about geological events, showing that in late Pleistocene times a major and periodic cataclysmic flood came down the Columbia with devastating results, creating geological features clearly visible today. This flooding was due to the release of a vast amount of water held behind an ice floe which periodically would rupture, in the neighborhood of what is now Missoula, MT. The flood would plunge down the Columbia River tearing out most everything in its path, and reorganizing the geography of the Willamette Valley, the Columbia Gorge, etc. Hope this helps.. Bill