Paleohydrology of Late Pleistocene Superflooding, Altay Mountains, Siberia

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - Tập 259 Số 5093 - Trang 348-350 - 1993
Victor R. Baker1, Gerardo Benito1, Alexei N. Rudoy2
1Arizona Laboratory for Paleohydrological and Hydroclimatological Analysis, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
2Geography Department, Tomsk State Pedagogical Institute, Tomsk, Siberia, Russia

Tóm tắt

Cataclysmic flooding is a geomorphological process of planetary significance. Landforms of flood origin resulted from late Pleistocene ice-dammed lake failures in the Altay Mountains of south-central Siberia. Peak paleoflows, which exceeded 18 × 10 6 cubic meters per second, are comparable to the largest known terrestrial discharges of freshwater and show a hydrological scaling relation to floods generated by catastrophic dam failures. These seem to have been Earth's greatest floods, based on a variety of reconstructed paleohydraulic parameters.

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