Evidences of the high river runoff in the river valleys of the Volga basin during the Late glacial
https://doi.org/10.31857/S0435428122010126
Abstract
Large paleochannels are considered to be a geomorphological phenomena. The review of landscape-geomorphological traces of large paleochannels on the floodplains of the Volga Rivers basin is carried out, the regularities of their distribution are considered, the improvement of the method of analyzing the topography of river floodplains based on remote sensing data is proposed. Based on the analysis of high-resolution satellite images and digital elevation models of the Volga basin river valleys, more than 1700 sites with large paleochannels have been mapped. The morphology of paleochannels reflects the landscape and climatic differences between the northern and southern parts of the basin. The distribution of large paleochannels in the Volga basin apparently indicates that the duration and severity of paleoclimatic episodes of high river runoff on the East European Plain was maximum in the area that occupied by modern steppes and forest-steppe. To the north and south of this area there were fewer episodes of high runoff and therefore not too many geomorphological traces have been left in the river valleys.
About the Author
V. Yu. Ukraintsev
Institute of Geography RAS;
Water Problems Institute of RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Moscow
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Ukraintsev V.Yu. Evidences of the high river runoff in the river valleys of the Volga basin during the Late glacial. Geomorfologiya. 2022;53(1):26-34. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31857/S0435428122010126
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