Palaeohydrology

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2. Studies with Temporal Focus

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   2. Global Megaflood Paleohydrology

      • Victor R. Baker

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   3. Flooding Northern Germany: Impacts and Magnitudes of Middle Pleistocene Glacial Lake-Outburst Floods

      • Jutta Winsemann, Jörg Lang

      Pages 29-47

   4. Outburst Flood from Möhne Reservoir in May 1943 After Aerial Bombing

      • Jürgen Herget, Lukas Gregori

      Pages 49-61

3. Studies with Regional Focus

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Droughts in Historical Times in Europe, as Derived from Documentary Evidence

      • Rudolf Brázdil, Andrea Kiss, Ladislava Řezníčková, Mariano Barriendos

      Pages 65-96

   3. Geomorphological and Geoarchaeological Evidence of the Medieval Deluge in the Tagliamento River (NE Italy)

      • Alessandro Fontana, Matteo Frassine, Livio Ronchi

      Pages 97-116

   4. Inverted Channels in the Eastern Sahara—Distribution, Formation, and Interpretation to Enable Reconstruction of Paleodrainage Networks

      • Abdallah S. Zaki, Robert Giegengack, Sébastien Castelltort

      Pages 117-134

   5. Noah’s Flood—Probing an Ancient Narrative Using Geoscience

      • Helmut Brückner, Max Engel

      Pages 135-151

4. Studies with Methodical and Technical Topics

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   2. Luminescence Dating in Fluvial Settings: Overcoming the Challenge of Partial Bleaching

      • Rachel K. Smedley, Grace K. A. Skirrow

      Pages 155-168

   3. Large Palaeomeanders in Europe: Distribution, Formation Process, Age, Environments and Significance

      • Jef Vandenberghe, Aleksey Sidorchuk

      Pages 169-186

   4. Palaeostage Indicators in Rivers—An Illustrated Review

      • Jürgen Herget

      Pages 187-211

   5. High-Resolution Sedimentary Paleoflood Records in Alluvial River Environments: A Review of Recent Methodological Advances and Application to Flood Hazard Assessment

      • Willem H. J. Toonen, Samuel E. Munoz, Kim M. Cohen, Mark G. Macklin

      Pages 213-228

5. Back Matter

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The book provides a review of the most relevant topics on the booming discipline of palaeohydrology and focuses on previous extreme events like exceptional floods and droughts. Reviews written by leading experts of their fields are combined with selected key studies and presentations on up-to-day methodical and conceptional topics as a perspective for further research. Consequently, the compilation provides an excellent review on the state of the art of numerous relevant topics of palaeohydrology and acts as unique introduction for early career scientists and scientists of different disciplines working on hydrological extreme events, both in basic research and applied aspects. 

• Palaeohydrology
• Palaeofloods
• Historic Floods
• Extreme Floods
• Fluvial Geomorphology
• Quaternary Sciences
• Extreme Droughts
• Extreme Floods
• Extreme Droughts
• Historic Droughts
• Hydrological Extremes
• GLOCOPH
• hydrological extreme event
• Early hydrologic systems
• water movement
• Paleohydrology
• hydrogeology
• historical geography
• historical geology

• Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  Jürgen Herget

• Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy

  Alessandro Fontana

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