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<br />FLOOD HISTORY OF THE BIG THOMPSON RIVER BASIN: <br />FLASH FLOODS, PALEOFLOODS, AND DAM-BREAK FLOODS <br /> <br />for <br /> <br />Landscape Evolution and Erosion Modeling Workshop <br /> <br />Sylvan Dale Ranch near Loveland, Colorado <br /> <br />March 4, 1999 <br /> <br />Robert Jarrett, Ph.D. <br />(aka Capt'n Flood) <br />U.S. Geological Survey <br />P.O. Box 25046, MS 412 <br />Denver, CO 80225 <br />303-236-6447 <br />rjarrett@usgs.gov <br /> <br />OBJECTIVE <br /> <br />Visit selected sites in the Big Thompson River Basin along US Highway 34 <br />from Loveland to and including Rocky Mountain National Park. Trip begins <br />at Sylvan Dale Ranch (SDR) about 1 pm and returns to SDR about 5:30 pm. <br />The purpose of the trip is to encourage discussion of flood and sediment <br />transport processes from various sources (snowmelt and flash floods, <br />wildfire-caused floods, and dam-break floods, debris flows, and <br />paleofloods), their relation to landscape evolution and erosion modeling, <br />and several "new" issues in flood hydrology. Some people say that with <br />all the post-flood mitigation (and roads in the narrow canyon), there isn't <br />anything left to see because the bulldozers obliterated everything. Do you <br />agree? <br /> <br />********CA UTIO N **** **** <br /> <br />THE CANYON IS NARROW AND SOME CARS GO VERY FAST; BE <br />CAREFUL DRIVING AND AT ROADSIDE STOPS! <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />1 <br />