The channeled scabland: A retrospective

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 37, Issue , 2009, Pages 393-411

  Baker, Victor R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Catastrophism; Floods; Fluvial erosion; Megaflooding; Uniformitarianism

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHISM; CORDILLERAN ICE SHEET; EROSION AND DEPOSITION; FLUVIAL CHANNELS; FLUVIAL EROSION; GLACIAL LAKES; GRAVEL DEPOSIT; HIGH ENERGY; MEGAFLOODING; MONTANA; PLEISTOCENE; UNIFORMITARIANISM; WASHINGTON;

FLOODS;

GRAVEL;

BRAIDED RIVER; CATASTROPHIC EVENT; CHANNEL; CORDILLERA; CORDILLERAN ICE SHEET; EROSION; FLOOD; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; GLACIAL LAKE; MARS; PLEISTOCENE;

IDAHO; MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 67651015220     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.061008.134726     Document Type: Review

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