A review of glacier outburst floods in Iceland and Greenland with a megafloods perspective

JL Carrivick, FS Tweed - Earth-Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
The very largest glacier outburst floods have been termed 'megafloods' given their volume
and peak discharge. That definition might be revised because those floods have become …

[图书][B] Fundamentals of geomorphology

R Huggett, E Shuttleworth - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
This revised and updated edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the
subject, exploring the world's landforms from a broad systems perspective. It covers the …

Sedimentary records of megafloods in the Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge in the eastern Himalaya since the Last Glacial Period

P Wang, H Wang, T Liu, G Hu, J Qin, R Yuan - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
The megaflooding caused by outbursts from Late Quaternary glacially-dammed lakes in the
Yarlung Tsangpo Gorge (YTG) potentially shaped the fluvial landscape and controlled the …

Quantifying the combined effects of multiple extreme floods on river channel geometry and on flood hazards

M Guan, JL Carrivick, NG Wright, PA Sleigh… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Effects of flood-induced bed elevation and channel geometry changes on flood hazards are
largely unexplored, especially in the case of multiple floods from the same site. This study …

Fluvial palaeohydrology in the 21st century and beyond

VR Baker, G Benito, AG Brown… - Earth Surface …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Professor Kenneth J. Gregory was a major contributor to fluvial palaeohydrological
research. Beginning in the early 1980s, under his influence, rapid international growth of the …

Two-stage opening of the Dover Strait and the origin of island Britain

S Gupta, JS Collier, D Garcia-Moreno… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Late Quaternary separation of Britain from mainland Europe is considered to be a
consequence of spillover of a large proglacial lake in the Southern North Sea basin. Lake …

Canyon formation constraints on the discharge of catastrophic outburst floods of Earth and Mars

MGA Lapotre, MP Lamb… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Catastrophic outburst floods carved amphitheater‐headed canyons on Earth and Mars, and
the steep headwalls of these canyons suggest that some formed by upstream headwall …

Late Holocene canyon-carving floods in northern Iceland were smaller than previously reported

WGM van der Bilt, ID Barr, SMP Berben… - … earth & environment, 2021 - nature.com
Catastrophic floods have formed deep bedrock canyons on Earth, but the relationship
between peak discharge and bedrock erosion is not clearly understood. This hinders efforts …

[HTML][HTML] Holocene uplift and rapid fluvial erosion of Iceland: A record of post-glacial landscape evolution

GS de Quay, GG Roberts, DH Rood… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
In actively deforming regions fluvial systems are strongly regulated by uplift. River
geometries record histories of vertical motions that can be used to examine the driving …

Geological setting control of flood dynamics in lowland rivers (Poland)

G Wierzbicki, P Ostrowski, T Falkowski… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
We aim to answer a question: how does the geological setting affect flood dynamics in
lowland alluvial rivers? The study area covers three river reaches: not trained, relatively …