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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830004303321

Titolo

Flood and megaflood processes and deposits [[electronic resource] ] : recent and ancient examples / / edited by I. Peter Martini, Victor R. Baker and Guillermina Garzón

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell Science, 2002

ISBN

9786612042386

1-4443-0429-1

1-282-04238-6

1-4443-0430-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Collana

Special publication no. 32 of the International Association of Sedimentologists

Altri autori (Persone)

MartiniI. P <1935-> (Ireneo Peter)

BakerVictor R

GarzónG (Guillermina)

Disciplina

551.48/9

551.489

Soggetti

Floods

Sedimentation and deposition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Alluvial-fan sedimentation from a glacial-outburst flood, Lone Pine, California, and contrasts with meteorological flood deposits""""T. C. BLAIR""; ""Alluvial fans in the Italian Alps: sedimentary facies and processes""; ""A. MOSCARIELLO, L. MARCHI, F. MARAGA and G. MORTARA""; ""Analysis of terrestrial hyperconcentrated flows and their deposits""; ""M.BENVENUTI and I.P. MARTINI""; ""Catastrophic debris-flow deposits from an inferred landslide-dam failure, Eocene Berga Formation, eastern Pyrenees, Spain""; ""E. SAULA, E. EMILI MATO and C. PUIGDEFABREGAS""

""Special cases""""Sedimentary traces as indicator of temporary ice-marginal channels in the Westphalian Bight, Germany""; ""J. HERGET""; ""Outlet glaciers of the Pleistocene ( LGM) south Tibetan ice sheet between Cho Oyu and Shisha Pangma as potential sources of former megafloods""; ""M.KUHLE""; ""Index""



Sommario/riassunto

The aim of this publication is the understanding of large floods and their impact on the Earth's surface. The major objectives are: 1) to take a second look at what constitutes a megaflood that the principle of uniformitarianism is at some loss to explain and 2) to try to determine what could happen in such large floods by analyzing those that occur in front of glaciers, in alluvial-fans and in alluvial valleys.  The products of these floods are presented in terms of sedimentary deposits, erosional features and damage to human activities.   The volume bears out the concept that sedimentologica