Flood and Megaflood Processes and Deposits: Recent and Ancient Examples

Copyright © 2002 International Association of Sedimentologists

Flood and Megaflood Processes and Deposits: Recent and Ancient Examples

Editor(s): I. Peter Martini, Victor R. Baker, Guillermina Garzón

Published Online: 17 MAR 2009

Print ISBN: 9780632064045

Online ISBN: 9781444304299

DOI: 10.1002/9781444304299

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The aim of this publication is the understanding of large floods and their impact on the Earth's surface. The major objectives are: 1) to take a second look at what constitutes a megaflood that the principle of uniformitarianism is at some loss to explain and 2) to try to determine what could happen in such large floods by analyzing those that occur in front of glaciers, in alluvial-fans and in alluvial valleys.

The products of these floods are presented in terms of sedimentary deposits, erosional features and damage to human activities.

The volume bears out the concept that sedimentological analysis can be a powerful tool, not only for reconstructing processes that have acted on ancient landscapes, but also as a technique for risk assessment of certain troubled areas. Therefore, this volume is of interest not only to sedimentologists/gemorphlogists, but also to engineers, landuse planners and anyone interested in the interrelation between humans and the environment.


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Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–vii)

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      Colour Plates (pages c1–c2)

  3. Megafloods

    1. High-Energy Megafloods: Planetary Settings and Sedimentary Dynamics (pages 1–15)

      V. R. Baker

    2. Late Quaternary Catastrophic Flooding in the Altai Mountains of South–Central Siberia: A Synoptic Overview and an Introduction to Flood Deposit Sedimentology (pages 17–35)

      P. A. Carling, A. D. Kirkbride, S. Parnachov, P. S. Borodavko and G. W. Berger

    3. Great Holocene Floods along Jökulsá á Fjöllum, North Iceland (pages 37–51)

      R. B. Waitt

  4. Glacial Outwash Floods

    1. November 1996 Jökulhlaup on Skeiðarársandur Outwash Plain, Iceland (pages 53–65)

      Á. Snorrason, P. Jónsson, O. Sigurðsson, S. Pálsson, S. Árnason, S. Víkingsson and I. Kaldal

    2. The Effects of Glacier-Outburst Flood Flow Dynamics on Ice-Contact Deposits: November 1996 Jökulhlaup, Skeiðarársandur, Iceland (pages 67–83)

      A. J. Russell and Ó. Knudsen

    3. Formation of Ice-Block Obstacle Marks during the November 1996 Glacier-Outburst Flood (Jökulhlaup), Skeiðarársandur, Southern Iceland (pages 85–97)

      H. Fay

    4. A Large-Scale Flood Event in 1994 from the Mid-Canterbury Plains, New Zealand, and Implications for Ancient Fluvial Deposits (pages 99–109)

      G. H. Browne

  5. Alluvial-Fan Floods

    1. Alluvial-Fan Sedimentation from a Glacial-Outburst Flood, Lone Pine, California, and Contrasts with Meteorological Flood Deposits (pages 111–140)

      T. C. Blair

    2. Alluvial Fans in the Italian Alps: Sedimentary Facies and Processes (pages 141–166)

      A. Moscariello, L. Marchi, F. Maraga and G. Mortara

    3. Analysis of Terrestrial Hyperconcentrated Flows and their Deposit (pages 167–193)

      M. Benvenuti and I. P. Martini

    4. Catastrophic Debris-Flow Deposits from an Inferred Landslide-Dam Failure, Eocene Berga Formation, Eastern Pyrenees, Spain (pages 195–209)

      E. Saula, E. Emili Mato and C. Puigdefabregas

  6. Alluvial Valley Floods

    1. Coarse-Grained Flood Bars Formed at the Confluence of Two Subarctic Rivers Affected by Hydroelectric Dams, Ontario, Canada (pages 211–231)

      S.-J. Mosher and I. P. Martini

    2. Comparison of the Flood Response of a Braided and a Meandering River, Conditioned by Anthropogenic and Climatic Changes (pages 233–249)

      G. Garzón and A. Alonso

    3. Effects of Land-Use and Precipitation Changes on Floodplain Sedimentation in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Geul River, The Netherlands) (pages 251–267)

      M. H. Stam

    4. Use of Remote Sensing in Monitoring River Floods and their Effects on the Landscape (pages 269–279)

      L. Halounová

  7. Special Cases

    1. Sedimentary Traces as Indicator of Temporary Ice-Marginal Channels in the Westphalian Bight, Germany (pages 281–290)

      J. Herget

    2. Outlet Glaciers of the Pleistocene (LGM) South Tibetan Ice Sheet between Cho Oyu and Shisha Pangma as Potential Sources of Former Megafloods (pages 291–302)

      M. Kuhle

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      Index (pages 303–312)

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