Simulations of cataclysmic outburst floods from Pleistocene glacial lake Missoula

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 678-689

  Denlinger, R P ^a   O'Connell, D R H ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b William Lettis and Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED SHEAR STRESSS; COLUMBIA; DAM-BREAKS; ELEVATION MODELS; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FLOOD MODELS; FLOW DOMAINS; GLACIAL LAKES; MODEL PREDICTION; MODEL RESULTS; PEAK DISCHARGE; PLEISTOCENE GLACIAL; RUGGED TERRAIN; SHALLOW WATER FLOW; TWO DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELS; WASHINGTON; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

CATCHMENTS; DAMS; FLOODS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LAKES; LANDFORMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

BOTTOM STRESS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EXTREME EVENT; FLOODING; GLACIAL LAKE; ICE-DAMMED LAKE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTBURST; PLEISTOCENE; PREDICTION; TERRAIN; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953742502     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B26454.1     Document Type: Article

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