Paleoflood Hydrology of the Principal Canyons of the Southern Tortolita Mountains, Southeastern Arizona
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1991Keywords
Arizona Geological Survey Open File ReportsSoutheastern Arizona
Southern Tortolita Mountains
Principal Canyons
hydrology
paleoflood
Geology
Pleistocene
Recent
HoloceneCanada AguaProspect CanyonRuelas CanyonWild Burro CanyonCochie CanyonPima Countyflood frequency100-year peak dischargepiedmont
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House, P.K., 1991, Paleoflood Hydrology of the Principal Canyons of the Southern Tortolita Mountains, Southeastern Arizona. Arizona Geological Survey Open File Report, OFR-91-06, 22 p.Description
A detailed paleoflood investigation was performed in five canyons supplying flood flows to the piedmont of the Tortolita Mountains. The results of the study reveal large discrepancies between theoretical estimates of 100-year peak discharges and maximum apparent paleoflood discharge estimates derived from the analysis of geologic effects of flooding preserved in each canyon.Additional Links
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OFR-91-06Rights
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Documents in the AZGS Document Repository collection are made available by the Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS) and the University Libraries at the University of Arizona. For more information about items in this collection, please contact azgs-info@email.arizona.edu.North Bounding Coordinate
32.5657South Bounding Coordinate
32.4267West Bounding Coordinate
-111.167East Bounding Coordinate
-110.961Collections
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