Catastrophic Flooding

Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium 18

L. Mayer, D. Nash, L. Mayer, D. Nash

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9780367896522
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000045871
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Biology

This book, first published in 1987, contains a collection of papers presented at the 18th Binghamton Symposium, focusing on the topic of catastrophic flooding. These papers make the case for the careful collection and interpretation of data from which the importance and effects of catastrophic flooding may be deduced. Questions tackled include: what are the causes and effects of catastrophic flooding? What parameters should be used to measure them? What effect do they have on erosional and depositional landforms? Can modelling be used to predict their flow dynamics?

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Flood power
• 2 Catastrophic flooding and atmospheric circulation anomalies
• 3 El Niño and annual floods in coastal Peru
• 4 Observations of Jökulhlaups from ice-dammed Strandline Lake, Alaska: implications for paleohydrology
• 5 Glacial-lake outbursts along the mid-continent margins of the Laurentide ice-sheet
• 6 Catastrophic flooding into the Great Lakes from Lake Agassiz
• 7 Drainage of Lake Wisconsin near the end of the Wisconsin Glaciation
• 8 Stratigraphic evidence of large floods in the upper Mississippi Valley
• 9 Reconstruction of a flood resulting from a moraine-dam failure using geomorphological evidence and dam-break modeling
• 10 Changes accompaning an extraordinary flood on a sand-bed stream
• 11 A medieval catastrophic flood in central west Iran
• 12 Occurrence and geomorphic effects of streamflow and debris flow floods in northern Arizona and southern Utah
• 13 Techniques used by the U.S. Geological Survey in estimating the magnitude and frequency of floods
• 14 Planetary analogs for geomorphic features produced by catastrophic flooding
• 15 Dynamics of a Missoula Flood
• 16 Effects of a high magnitude flood in a Mediterranean climate: A case study in the Jordan River basin
• 17 Storm-induced catastrophic flooding in Virginia and West Virginia, November, 1985
• 18 A high magnitude flood in the Sinai Desert