PLEISTOCENE REORGANIZATION AND RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF RIVER CHANNELS IN THE UPPER KAMA RIVER BASIN
https://doi.org/10.15356/0435-4281-2017-3-88-100
Abstract
Upstream parts of the Pechora, Vychegda and Kama basins (north-eastern East European Plain) located in the vicinity of the Neopleisocene ice sheets demonstrate asynchronism in the formation of different parts of drainage systems and long interruptions in fluvial development. Within-basin and interbasin flow diversions were accompanied by repeated extreme outbursts of water from proglacial lakes and river captures. These processes resulted in the formation of a specific type of river valleys compiled of multiple-aged reaches, which determines high variability of channel-floodplain complexes, not characteristic for drainages in non-glaciated areas. In the Kama-Pechora-Vychegda watershed, the following types of river valley reaches were designated: progressive (single-directional) broken fluvial development, two-directional broken fluvial development, spillway valleys, alternate fluvial and lacustrine development. Reaches of each type differ in the figures of valley width, river slope and sinuosity value, meandering belt width, amplitude and rate of lateral channel migration, floodplain morphology.
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Nazarov N.N. PLEISTOCENE REORGANIZATION AND RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF RIVER CHANNELS IN THE UPPER KAMA RIVER BASIN. Geomorfologiya. 2017;(3):88-100. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.15356/0435-4281-2017-3-88-100
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