Quaternary paleolake formation and cataclysmic flooding along the upper Yenisei River

Geomorphology

Volumn 104, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 143-164

  Komatsu, Goro ^a   Arzhannikov, Sergei G ^b   Gillespie, Alan R ^c   Burke, Raymond M ^d   Miyamoto, Hideaki ^e   Baker, Victor R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF THE EARTH S CRUST   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Floods; Glacial history; Mongolia; Paleolakes; Quaternary; Siberia

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DUNE FIELD; FLOOD DEPOSIT; FLOODING; FORMATION MECHANISM; INTERMONTANE BASIN; PALEOCHANNEL; PALEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOLIMNOLOGY; PEAK DISCHARGE; QUATERNARY;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAYAN MOUNTAINS; YENISEI RIVER;

EID: 58249137334     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.08.009     Document Type: Article

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