Lisa L. Ely
Central Washington University
51 Papers
473 Citations
Lisa L. Ely is an academic researcher from Central Washington University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Flood myth & Geology. The author has an hindex of 19, co-authored 45 publications. Previous affiliations of Lisa L. Ely include University of Arizona & Pennsylvania State University.
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Papers
High-Resolution Holocene Environmental Changes in the Thar Desert, Northwestern India
Yehouda Enzel,Lisa L. Ely,Sheila Mishra,Rengaswamy Ramesh,Rivka Amit,Boaz Lazar,S. N. Rajaguru,Victor R. Baker,Amir Sandler +8 more
TL;DR: Sediments from Lunkaransar dry lake in northwestern India reveal regional water table and lake level fluctuations over decades to centuries during the Holocene that are attributed to changes in the southwestern Indian monsoon rains as mentioned in this paper.
A 5000-year record of extreme floods and climate change in the southwestern United States.
TL;DR: A 5000-year regional paleoflood chronology, based on flood deposits from 19 rivers in Arizona and Utah, reveals that the largest floods in the region cluster into distinct time intervals that coincide with periods of cool, moist climate and frequent El Ni�o events.
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Response of extreme floods in the southwestern United States to climatic variations in the late Holocene
TL;DR: A regional synthesis of paleoflood chronologies on rivers in Arizona and southern Utah reveals that the largest floods over the last 5000 years cluster into distinct time periods that are related to regional and global climatic fluctuations as mentioned in this paper.
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A 4500-year record of large floods on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, Arizona
Jim E. O'Connor,Lisa L. Ely,Ellen Wohl,Lawrence E. Stevens,Theodore S. Melis,Vishwas S. Kale,Victor R. Baker +6 more
TL;DR: A sequence of flood deposits left by the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, provides evidence of at least 15 floods with peak discharges greater than $5500 m^{3}sec^{-1}$$ over the last 4500 yr as discussed by the authors.
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Paleoflood evidence for a natural upper bound to flood magnitudes in the Colorado River Basin
TL;DR: The existence of an upper limit to the magnitude of floods in a region is a long-standing and controversial hypothesis in flood hydrology as mentioned in this paper, but the short lengths of conventional gaging records limit substantial advances in testing whether this stabilization is evidence of an actual upper limit, since the average period at a gaging station is only 20 years with most stations having less than 70 years of observation.
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