Sensitivity, persistence and resolution of the geomorphological record of valley-floor floods in an alpine glacier-fed catchment, Leirdalen, Jotunheimen, southern Norway

• Published in: The Holocene
• Main Authors: McEwen, Lindsey J, Matthews, John A
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SAGE Publications 2013
• Subjects: Paleontology; Earth-Surface Processes; Ecology; Archeology; Global and Planetary Change; Leirdalen; Norway; glacier
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959683612475144; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683612475144; http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0959683612475144

Coarse-grained flood deposits, including 52 discrete berms, bars, terraces, splays and sheets, were investigated along a 6.6 km stretch of the Leira river, in a catchment containing several alpine glaciers. These landforms were mapped, characterized in terms of clast size and reconstructed hydrologi...