Global Late Quaternary Megafloods

Victor R. Baker; Paul A. Carling

doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.12459-5

Global Late Quaternary Megafloods

Victor R. Baker, Paul A. Carling

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Abstract

Spectacular discoveries have been made in regard to megafloods, which are paleofloods for which peak discharges have equaled or exceeded 1million cubic meters per second. Most of the known megafloods and related catastrophic flooding phenomena are associated with large-scale glaciation, notably that which occurred in the terminal phases of the Pleistocene. The main associations are with the Laurentide and Cordilleran Ice Sheets of North America, the Patagonian Ice Sheet of South America, the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet in Europe, and various mountain and lowland ice sheets of central Asia.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Treatise on Geomorphology
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	832-840
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9780128182352
ISBN (Print)	9780128182345
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.12459-5
State	Published - Jan 1 2022

Keywords

Global
Megafloods
Paleohydrology glaciation
Pleistocene

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General Environmental Science

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