The 1993 Mississippi River Flood: A One Hundred or a One Thousand Year Event?

Bruch D. Malamud; Donald L. Turcotte; Christopher C. Barton

doi:10.2113/gseegeosci.ii.4.479

The 1993 Mississippi River Flood: A One Hundred or a One Thousand Year Event?

Bruch D. Malamud, Donald L. Turcotte, Christopher C. Barton

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	479-486
Number of pages	8
Journal	Environmental and Engineering Geoscience
Volume	2
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2113/gseegeosci.ii.4.479
State	Published - 1996
Externally published	Yes

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Environmental Engineering
Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)

Keywords

Colorado River
Flood Estimation
Floods
Fractal Distributions
Log-Pearson Type 3 Distributions
Mississippi River Floods
Modeling/Statistics
Paleofloods
Power-law Distributions

Disciplines

Earth Sciences
Environmental Sciences
Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Access to Document

10.2113/gseegeosci.ii.4.479

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title = "The 1993 Mississippi River Flood: A One Hundred or a One Thousand Year Event?",

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