New insights into the spring flood history of the lower peace and Athabasca Rivers, Northern Canada

Terrace floodbed sediments provide a key to understanding riverine flood history but to date floodbed chronologies have been limited in their temporal resolution. This study reconstructs the spring flood frequency, magnitude, and sediment delivery of the Peace and Athabasca Rivers at the Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD), northern Canada, for the past four centuries through an algorithm that relates time to total organic matter accumulation in terrace...