title: Paleohydrology of late pleistocene superflooding, altay mountains, siberia.
abstract: Cataclysmic flooding is a geomorphological process of planetary significance. Landforms of flood origin resulted from late Pleistocene ice-dammed lake failures in the Altay Mountains of south-central Siberia. Peak paleoflows, which exceeded 18 x 10(6) cubic meters per second, are comparable to the largest known terrestrial discharges of freshwater and show a hydrological scaling relation to floods generated by catastrophic dam failures. These seem to have been Earth's greatest floods, based on a variety of reconstructed paleohydraulic parameters.
authors.forename: V R
authors.initials: VR
authors.lastname: Baker
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Benito
authors.forename: A N
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Rudoy