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Overview of megaflooding : Earth and Mars / Victor R. Baker -- Channel-scale erosional bedforms in bedrock and in loos granular material : character, processes and implications / Paul A. Carling [and others] -- Review of open-channel megaflood depositional landforms on Earth and Mars / Paul A. Carling [and others] -- Jökulhlaups in Iceland : sources, release and drainage / Helgi Björnsson -- Channeled Scabland morphology / Victor R. Baker -- Morphology and sedimentology of landforms created by subglacial megafloods / Mandy J. Munro-Stasiuk [and others] -- Proglacial megaflooding along the margins of the Laurentide Ice Sheet / Alan E. Kehew [and others] -- Floods from natural rock-material dams / Jim E. O'Connor and Robin A. Beebee -- Surface morphology and origin of outflow channels in the Valles Marineris region / Neil M. Coleman and Victor R. Baker -- Floods from fossae : a review of Amazonian-aged extensional-tectonic megaflood channels on Mars / Devon M. Burr, Lionel Wilson and Alistair S. Bargery -- Large basin overflow floods on Mars / Rossman P. Irwin III and John A. Grant -- Criteria for identifying jökulhlaup deposits in the sedimentary record / Philip M. Marren and Matthias Schuh -- Megaflood sedimentary valley fill : Altai Mountains, Siberia / Paul A. Carling [and others] -- Modelling of subaerial jökulhlaups in Iceland / Snorri Páll Kjaran [and others] -- Jökulhlaups from Kverkfjöll volcano, Iceland : modelling transient hydraulic phenomena / Jonathan L. Carrivick -- Dynamics of fluid flow in Martian outflow channels / Lionel Wilson, Alistair S. Bargery and Devon M. Burr.

Megaflooding is the sudden discharge of exceptional volumes of water. Megafloods have significantly altered the terrain of Earth and Mars, and may have acted as triggers for climate change on these planets. Recently, research into megaflooding has made important advances: on Earth, real-time measurements of contemporary floods in Iceland complement research into older and larger terrestrial floods, while on Mars terabytes of data from several spacecraft orbiting that planet are dramatically revising our view of flooding there. Beginning with a historical overview of flood science, the book presents sections on morphology and mechanisms, flood sedimentology, and modelling, each illustrated with examples from Earth and Mars. By juxtaposing terrestrial and Martian research, this volume creates a unique synthesis to further our understanding of these enormous paleoflood events. It is an invaluable reference for researchers and students of hydrology, geomorphology, sedimentology and planetary science, as well as environmental and hydraulic engineers.