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.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Groupe français de géomorphologie 2016
• Subjects: Islande; cours d’eau en tresses; jökulhlaup; sandur; proglaciaire; fluvial; invariance d’échelle; Iceland; braided river; proglacial; scale invariance; geo; envir; Skeiðará; Skeiðarárjökull; Skeiðarársandur; glacier
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/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...