Floodplain sedimentation rates, soil properties and recent flood history in southern Québec

Autor: Diane Saint-Laurent, Bassam Ghaleb, Luc Lavoie, Ariane Drouin, Julien St-Laurent
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Global and Planetary Change. 70:76-91
ISSN: 0921-8181
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2009.11.009
Popis: article i nfo 210 Pb dating floods This study examines the depositional and pedogenic processes observed in reaches affected by periodic flooding in river basins of southern Quebec and presents a reconstruction of flood events in this area from 1865 to 2005. This record shows a significant increase in flooding over the last 100 years, and successive overbank flood deposits show evidence for a recent increase in flood frequency in this region. The frequency of flooding leads to fine sediments being regularly deposited on floodplains producing weakly developed alluvial soils. Sedimentological and pedological analyses combined with radiocarbon and 210 Pb dating has allowed the determination of floodplain sedimentation rates. The radiocarbon data obtained from organic layers buried in floodplain soils show variable ages over the last 2210 radiocarbon years. Sedimentation rates obtained from radiocarbon dating and both CRS and CF:CS models for 210 Pb show average values ranging from 1.0 to 7.6 mm yr −1
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