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SUBMITTER: Sutfin NA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6527556 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sutfin Nicholas A NA Wohl Ellen E
Nature communications 20190520 1
High-elevation mountain streams are commonly viewed as erosive environments, but they can retain sediment along river corridors for thousands of years. In 2013, an extreme flood evacuated floodplain sediment in the Colorado Front Range, USA. We use fifty-two <sup>14</sup>C ages collected along four streams prior to the flood to estimate mean residence time of floodplain sediment. Here we show that mountain streams above the elevation of the Pleistocene terminal moraine retain floodplain sediment ...[more]