Climate change, flooding in arid environments, and erosion rates

Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1071-1074

  Molnar P , ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aridity; Climate change; Erosion; Floods

Indexed keywords

BED LOAD TRANSPORT;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION; FLOODS; GLACIERS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RIVERS; SHEAR STRESS;

GEOLOGY;

ARID ENVIRONMENT; BEDLOAD; CENOZOIC; CLIMATE CHANGE; EROSION RATE; FLOODING; FLUVIAL PROCESS;

EID: 84874992251     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(2001)029<1071:CCFIAE>2.0.CO     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. The nature of saltation and of bed-load transport in water
2. Bed-load transport by natural rivers
3. An empirical correlation of bed-load transport in flumes and natural rivers
4. Uniform flood-frequency estimating methods for federal agencies
5. Bed load grain velocities and sediment transport rates
6. Bedrock incision, rock uplift, and threshold hillslopes in the northwestern Himalayas
7. Estimates of Cenozoic oceanic sedimentation rates
8. Worldwide continental denudation and climatic deterioration during the late Tertiary: Evidence from deep-sea sediments
9. A statistical analysis of tropical cyclone intensity
10. L'érosion dans les Alpes au Plio-Quaternaire et au Miocène
11. Rates of erosion and sediment evacuation by glaciers: A review of field data and their implications
12. Beyond power: Bed-rock river incision process and form
13. Mass/age distribution and composition of sediments on the ocean floor and the global rate of sediment subduction
14. Mass-balanced paleogeographic reconstructions
15. Chronology, causes and progression of the Messinian salinity crisis
16. The hydraulic geometry of stream channels and some physiographic implications
17. Mass accumulation rates in Asia during the Cenozoic
18. Topographic perturbations of regional stresses and consequent bedrock fracturing
19. Late Cenozoic uplift of mountain ranges and global climatic change: Chicken or egg?
20. Relation between peak flows, precipitation, and physiography for five mountainous regions in the western USA
21. A regional perspective of the hydrology of the 1993 Mississippi River Basin flood
22. Late Cenozoic uplift in southern Asia and the American West: Rationale for general circulation modeling experiments
23. River longitudinal profiles and bedrock incision models: Stream power and the influence of sediment supply
24. Drainage responses to climate change
25. A scale-invariant approach to flood-frequency analysis
26. River incision into bedrock: Mechanics and relative efficacy of plucking, abrasion, and cavitation
27. Relative scales of time and effectiveness of climate in watershed geomorphology
28. Magnitude and frequency of forces in geomorphic processes
29. Increased sedimentation rates and grain sizes 2-4 Myr ago due to the influence of climate change on erosion rates