Bar deposition in glacial outburst floods: scaling, post-flood reworking, and implications for the geomorphological and sedimentary record

• Published in: Géomorphologie : relief, processus, environnement
• Main Author: Marren, Philip M.
• Other Authors: University of Chester
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: GFG 2016
• Subjects: Fluvial geomorphology; Iceland; Braided river; Jokulhlaup; Proglacial; Skeiðarársandur; Skeiðarárjökull; Skeiðará; glacier
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10034/605920; https://doi.org/10.4000/geomorphologie.11262

The appearance of a flood deposit in the geomorphological and sedimentary record is a product of the both the processes operating during the flood, and those that occur afterwards and overprinting the deposit with a record of ‘normal’ processes. Nearly half of the total discharge of the November 199...