Paleohydrology of late pleistocene superflooding, Altay Mountains, Siberia

Victor R. Baker; Gerardo Benito; Alexey N. Rudoy

doi:10.1126/science.259.5093.348

Paleohydrology of late pleistocene superflooding, Altay Mountains, Siberia

Victor R. Baker, Gerardo Benito, Alexey N. Rudoy

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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 × 10⁶ 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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	348-350
Number of pages	3
Journal	Science
Volume	259
Issue number	5093
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.259.5093.348
State	Published - 1993

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