| Description |
1 online resource (x, 319 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Overview of megaflooding : Earth and Mars / Victor R. Baker -- Channel-scale erosional bedforms in bedrock and in loos granular material : character, processes and implications / Paul A. Carling [and others] -- Review of open-channel megaflood depositional landforms on Earth and Mars / Paul A. Carling [and others] -- Jökulhlaups in Iceland : sources, release and drainage / Helgi Björnsson -- Channeled Scabland morphology / Victor R. Baker -- Morphology and sedimentology of landforms created by subglacial megafloods / Mandy J. Munro-Stasiuk [and others] -- Proglacial megaflooding along the margins of the Laurentide Ice Sheet / Alan E. Kehew [and others] -- Floods from natural rock-material dams / Jim E. O'Connor and Robin A. Beebee -- Surface morphology and origin of outflow channels in the Valles Marineris region / Neil M. Coleman and Victor R. Baker -- Floods from fossae : a review of Amazonian-aged extensional-tectonic megaflood channels on Mars / Devon M. Burr, Lionel Wilson and Alistair S. Bargery -- Large basin overflow floods on Mars / Rossman P. Irwin III and John A. Grant -- Criteria for identifying jökulhlaup deposits in the sedimentary record / Philip M. Marren and Matthias Schuh -- Megaflood sedimentary valley fill : Altai Mountains, Siberia / Paul A. Carling [and others] -- Modelling of subaerial jökulhlaups in Iceland / Snorri Páll Kjaran [and others] -- Jökulhlaups from Kverkfjöll volcano, Iceland : modelling transient hydraulic phenomena / Jonathan L. Carrivick -- Dynamics of fluid flow in Martian outflow channels / Lionel Wilson, Alistair S. Bargery and Devon M. Burr. |
| Summary |
This is a research summary of the causes and effects of megaflooding on Earth and Mars for hydrologists, planetary scientists and engineers. Beginning with a historical overview of flood science, the book presents sections on morphology and mechanism, flood sedimentology, and modelling. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Floods.
|
|
Floods. |
|
Sedimentation and deposition.
|
|
Sedimentation and deposition. |
|
Paleoclimatology -- Quaternary.
|
|
Paleoclimatology. |
| Chronological Term |
Quaternary |
| Subject |
Earth (Planet)
|
|
Earth (Planet) |
|
Mars (Planet) -- Water.
|
|
Mars (Planet) |
|
Water. |
| Chronological Term |
From 2 million years ago |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
| Added Author |
Burr, Devon, 1966-
|
|
Baker, Victor R.
|
|
Carling, Paul.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Megaflooding on Earth and Mars. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 9780521868525 (DLC) 2009019732 (OCoLC)311769516 |
| ISBN |
9780511633058 (electronic book) |
|
051163305X (electronic book) |
|
9780511635182 (electronic book) |
|
0511635184 (electronic book) |
|
0511631847 (e-book) |
|
9780511631849 (e-book) |
|
9780511634260 |
|
0511634269 |
|
9780511635632 |
|
051163563X |
|
0521868521 (hardback) |
|
9780521868525 (hardback) |
| Standard No. |
9786612336713 |
|
