Late Holocene canyon-carving floods in northern Iceland were smaller than previously reported

• Published in: Communications Earth & Environment
• Main Authors: Bilt, Willem Godert Maria van der, Barr, Iestyn D., Berben, Sarah Miche Patricia, hennekam, rick, Lane, Timothy P., Adamson, Kathryn, Bakke, Jostein
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Research 2021
• Subjects: Jökulsá á Fjöllum; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2767719; https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-021-00152-4

Catastrophic floods have formed deep bedrock canyons on Earth, but the relationship between peak discharge and bedrock erosion is not clearly understood. This hinders efforts to use geological evidence of these cataclysmic events to constrain their magnitude – a prerequisite for impact assessments....