PALEOHYDROLOGY OF LATE PLEISTOCENE SUPERFLOODING, ALTAY MOUNTAINS, SIBERIA

被引：145

作者：

BAKER, VR ^{[1
]}

BENITO, G ^{[1
]}

RUDOY, AN ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] TOMSK STATE PEDAGOG INST,DEPT GEOG,TOMSK,RUSSIA

来源：

SCIENCE | 1993年 / 259卷 / 5093期

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D O I：

10.1126/science.259.5093.348

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

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 x 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.

引用

页码：348 / 350

页数：3

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