Jürgen Herget & Alessandro Fontana 
Palaeohydrology 
Traces, Tracks and Trails of Extreme Events

The book provides a review of the most relevant topics on the booming discipline of palaeohydrology and focuses on previous extreme events like exceptional floods and droughts. Reviews written by leading experts of their fields are combined with selected key studies and presentations on up-to-day methodical and conceptional topics as a perspective for further research. Consequently, the compilation provides an excellent review on the state of the art of numerous relevant topics of palaeohydrology and acts as unique introduction for early career scientists and scientists of different disciplines working on hydrological extreme events, both in basic research and applied aspects.

Table of Content

​Part A: Studies with temporal focus.- Ch.1 Global megaflood paleohydrology.- Ch.2 Flooding northern Germany: impacts and magnitudes of Middle Pleistocene glacial lake-outburst floods.- Ch.3 Outburst flood from Möhne Reservoir in May 1943 after aerial bombing.- Part B: Studies with regional focus.- Ch.4 Droughts in historical times in Europe, as derived from documentary evidence.- Ch.5 Geomorphological and geoarchaeological evidence of the Medieval deluge in the Tagliamento River (NE Italy).- Ch.6 Inverted channels in the eastern Sahara – distribution, formation, and interpretation to enable reconstruction of paleodrainage networks.- Ch.7 Noah’s Flood – probing an ancient narrative using geoscience.- Part C: Studies with methodical and technical topics.- Ch.8 Luminescence dating in fluvial settings: overcoming the challenge of partial bleaching.- Ch.9 Large palaeomeanders in Europe: distribution, formation process, age, environments and significance.- Ch.10 Palaeostage indicators in rivers – an illustrated review.- Ch.11 High-resolution sedimentary paleoflood records in alluvial river environments – a review of recent methodological advances and application to flood hazard assessment.