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QUATERNARY RESEARCH
卷 73, 期 3, 页码 413-424出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.yqres.2010.02.005
关键词
Alaska; Matanuska; Knik; Megaflood; Outburst flood; Lake Atna; Rogen moraines; DeGreer moraines; Pygmy whitefish
资金
- University of Washington's Quaternary Research Center
- University of Washington's College of Forest Resources
- Reed Fellowship
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service State Wildlife [T-1-14 (P-10)]
Geomorphic, stratigraphic, geotechnical, and biogeographic evidence indicate that failure of a Pleistocene ice dam between 15.5 and 26 ka generated a megaflood from Glacial Lake Atna down the Matanuska Valley. While it has long been recognized that Lake Atna occupied >= 9000 km(2) of south-central Alaska's Copper River Basin, little attention has focused on the lake's discharge locations and behaviors. Digital elevation model and geomorphic analyses suggest that progressive lowering of the lake level by decanting over spillways exposed during glacial retreat led to sequential discharges down the Matanuska, Susitna, Tok, and Copper river valleys. Lake Atna's size, similar to 50 ka duration, and sequential connection to four major drainages likely made it a regionally important late Pleistocene freshwater refugium. We estimate a catastrophic Matanuska megaflood would have released 500-1400 km(3) at a maximum rate of >= 3 x 10(6) m(3) s(-1). Volumes for the other outlets ranged from 200 to 2600 km(3) and estimated maximum discharges ranged from 0.8 to 11.3 x 10(6) m(3) s(-1), making Lake Atna a serial generator of some of the largest known freshwater megafloods. (C) 2010 University of Washington. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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