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The precipitation event in July 1342, which happened over an area now situated in central Germany, most probably exceeded in damage any other reported event in historic and recent times in Central Europe. According to historic sources, the event lasted several days and resulted in widespread and extreme soil erosion with gullies up to 10m deep which devastated landscapes and ruined farmers. In several...
Mediterranean fluvial hydrology is characterised by decadal-to-multi-centennial length wet and dry episodes with abrupt transitions related to changes in atmospheric circulation. Since the mid-1990s site-based flood chronologies from slackwater deposits in bedrock rivers and regionally aggregated flood histories from alluvial deposits have developed increasingly higher resolution chronological frameworks,...
This paper describes developments in the analysis and interpretation of Holocene fluvial chronologies over the past 25years. Particular consideration is given to meta-analysis approaches pioneered by Macklin and Lewin (2003), using radiocarbon-dated fluvial deposits in Britain, which have transformed fluvial geochronologies and correlations with climate and land-use records worldwide. During the last...
The Venetian–Friulian Plain is the northernmost alluvial environment facing the Adriatic Sea and it represents the transition from the Mediterranean domain to the Alps and the temperate regions of central and eastern Europe. The investigated area consists of the alluvial systems of Brenta, Piave and Tagliamento rivers, forming distinct alluvial megafans fed by mountain basins of 1567, 3899 and 2580km...
The objective of this research was to unlock the potential of fluvial archives to create flood chronologies, based on grain-size characteristics of flood deposits located in two recently formed fluvio-lacustrine sequences.Grain-size data was compared with contemporaneous discharge measurements (for the Lower Rhine, The Netherlands). Regression relations between coarse-tail grain-size parameters and...
In order to obtain information about landscape activity and stability during the Late Quaternary in the Transcaucasian region, fluvial sediments of the lower Algeti River in SE-Georgia were studied by means of geomorphologic, sedimentologic and geochronologic methods. These investigations show that sediments aggraded by the Late Pleistocene braided Algeti River were strongly incised around the Pleistocene/Holocene...
A stratigraphic record of 35 large paleofloods and four large historical floods during the last 2000years for four basins in the Black Hills of South Dakota reveals three long-term flooding episodes, identified using probability distributions, at A.D.: 120–395, 900–1290, and 1410 to present. During the Medieval Climate Anomaly (~A.D. 900–1300) the four basins collectively experienced 13 large floods...
A database containing 983 absolute ages of fluvial deposits was interpreted in palaeohydrological terms and 646 dates were found associated with 754 local palaeofluvial events – geomorphic or sedimentological traces of changing fluvial activity. Combined probability density functions of high- and low-activity dates were used to detect time intervals of different palaeohydrological status. After low...
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