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Title:

Megaflooding on Earth and Mars / edited by Devon M. Burr, Paul A. Carling, Victor R. Baker.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

x, 319 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.

Subject:

Floods
Sedimentation and deposition
Paleoclimatology--Quaternary
Earth (Planet)
Mars (Planet)--Water.

Other Authors:

Burr, Devon, 1966-
Baker, Victor R.
Carling, Paul.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Dynamics of fluid flow in Martian outflow channels / Lionel Wilson, Alistair S. Bargery and Devon M. Burr. Channel-scale erosional bedforms in bedrock and in loos granular material : character, processes and implications / Paul A. Carling ... [et. al.] -- Review of open-channel megaflood depositional landforms on Earth and Mars / Paul A. Carling ... [et. al.] -- J©œkulhlaups in Iceland : sources, release and drainage / Helgi Bj©œrnsson -- Channeled Scabland morphology / Victor R. Baker -- Morphology and sedimentology of landforms created by subglacial megafloods / Mandy J. Munro-Stasiuk ... [et. al.] -- Proglacial megaflooding along the margins of the Laurentide Ice Sheet / Alan E. Kehew ... [et. al.] -- 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 j©œkulhlaup deposits in the sedimentary record / Philip M. Marren and Matthias Schuh -- Megaflood sedimentary valley fill : Altai Mountains, Siberia / Paul A. Carling ... [et. al.] -- Modelling of subaerial j©œkulhlaups in Iceland / Snorri P©Łll Kjaran ... [et. al.] -- J©œkulhlaups from Kverkfj©œll 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.

ISBN:

0521868521 (hardback)
9780521868525 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)311769516

LCCN:

2009019732

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)