Contents Notes |
Overview / Victor R. Baker -- Flood climates / Bruce P. Hayden -- Flood hydroclimatology / Katherine K. Hirschboeck -- Drainage basin morphometry and floods / Peter C. Patton -- Geomorphic measurements after a flood / Garnett P. Williams and John E. Costa -- Flood erosion / Victor R. Baker -- Sediment transport by floods / Paul D. Komar -- Rheologic, geomorphic, and sedimentologic differentiation of water floods, hyperconcentrated flows, and debris flows / John E. Costa -- Flood sedimentation in bedrock fluvial systems / Victor R. Baker and R. Craig Kochel -- River flood regime and floodplain stratigraphy / G. Robert Brakenridge -- Floods; degradation and aggradation / William B. Bull -- Geomorphic impact of large floods: review and new perspectives on magnitude and frequency / R. Craig Kochel -- Hydrologic aspects of floods in extreme arid environments / Asher P. Schick -- Floods in cold climates / Michael Church -- Definition of flood plains along arid-region rivers / William L. Graf -- Floodplain erosion and deposition during the December 1982 floods in southeast Missouri / Dale F. Ritter -- Geomorphic response of streams to floods in the glaciated terrain of southern New England / Peter C. Patton -- Climatic influence on upper Mississippi valley floods / James C. Knox -- Large floods as geomorphic events in humid tropics / Avijit Gupta -- Paleofluvial estimates from dimensions of former channels and meanders / Garnett P. Williams -- Plant ecological aspects of flood geomorphology and paleoflood history / Cliff R. Hupp -- Paleoflood analysis using slackwater deposits / R. Craig Kochel and Victor R. Baker -- Extending stream records with slackwater paleoflood hydrology: examples from west Texas / R. Craig Kochel -- Hydraulic modeling for paleoflood analysis / Jim E. O'Connor and Robert H. Webb -- Paleohydrologic reconstruction of flood frequency on the Escalante River, south-central Utah / Robert H. Webb, Jim E. O'Connor, and Victor R. Baker -- Geomorphologic contributions to flood-control planning / Thomas Dunne -- Floods from dam failures / John E. Costa -- The Tuscon, Arizona, flood of October 1983: implications for land management along alluvial river channels / Peter L. Kresan. |