P. Kyle House
United States Geological Survey
46 Papers
686 Citations
P. Kyle House is an academic researcher from United States Geological Survey. The author has contributed to research in topics: Flood myth & Canyon. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 41 publications. Previous affiliations of P. Kyle House include University of Nevada, Reno & United States Bureau of Mines.
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Papers
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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River-evolution and tectonic implications of a major Pliocene aggradation on the lower Colorado River: The Bullhead Alluvium
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the early Pliocene sediment aggradation following the integration of the upper and lower Colorado River basins and conclude that post-Bullhead degradation started before 3.3 Ma and implies that the river profile lowered and shortened because sediment supply declined, and progradation was unable to keep up with subsidence and plate motion in the delta.
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An integrated approach to flood hazard assessment on alluvial fans using numerical modeling, field mapping, and remote sensing
Jon D. Pelletier,Larry A. Mayer,Philip A. Pearthree,P. Kyle House,Karen A. Demsey,Jeanne E. Klawon,Kirk R. Vincent +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a new comprehensive approach to alluvial-fan flood hazard assessment was proposed using four complementary methods: two-dimensional raster-based hydraulic modeling, satellite-image change detection, field-based mapping of recent flood inundation, and surficial geologic mapping.