Greatest Floods and Largest Rivers

Large Rivers: Geomorphology and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 65-74

  Baker, Victor R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bar surfaces and associated run up layers; Cataclysmic flood landscapes; Glacial mega floods; Glacially augmented rivers; Ice dam impounding; Scabland bedrock erosion; Sediment charged floodwaters; Subglacial landscape development; Submarine aqueous origin; Watertransported boulders

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK EROSION; CATACLYSMIC FLOOD LANDSCAPES; LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT; WATERTRANSPORTED BOULDERS;

FLOODS;

EID: 84889473270     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470723722.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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