Palaeohydrology
Traces, Tracks and Trails of Extreme Events
Editors: Herget, Jürgen, Fontana, Alessandro (Eds.)
Free Preview- Provides a comprehensive updated review of the different topics investigated by palaeohydrology
- Applies a multidisciplinary approach including methods from geosciences and archaeological/historical background
- Combines general theory and description of key examples in a single book
- Presents an ideal introduction into the topic and discipline of palaeohydrology
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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.
- Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Global Megaflood Paleohydrology
Pages 3-28
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Flooding Northern Germany: Impacts and Magnitudes of Middle Pleistocene Glacial Lake-Outburst Floods
Pages 29-47
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Outburst Flood from Möhne Reservoir in May 1943 After Aerial Bombing
Pages 49-61
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Droughts in Historical Times in Europe, as Derived from Documentary Evidence
Pages 65-96
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Geomorphological and Geoarchaeological Evidence of the Medieval Deluge in the Tagliamento River (NE Italy)
Pages 97-116
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Palaeohydrology
- Book Subtitle
- Traces, Tracks and Trails of Extreme Events
- Editors
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- Jürgen Herget
- Alessandro Fontana
- Series Title
- Geography of the Physical Environment
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-23315-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-23315-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-23314-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-23317-4
- Series ISSN
- 2366-8865
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 230
- Number of Illustrations
- 17 b/w illustrations, 93 illustrations in colour
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