Discussion of 'Field evidence and hydraulic modeling of a large Holocene jökulhlaup at Jökulsá á Fjöllum channel, Iceland' by Douglas Howard, Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach and Timothy Beach, 2012
This paper discusses Howard et al. (2012) who reconstruct the peak discharge of a glacial outburst flood, or 'jökulhlaup', for part of the Jökulsá á Fjöllum in north-central Iceland. They propose that this flood was the largest on Earth.Weconsider that the magnitude of the jökulhlaup...
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2013-11-01.
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