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Title: DOWNSTREAM MOVEMENT OF A FLOOD CREST
Caption: (c) Volume of water per unit area at the same points; flooding at Clio lasts much longer than flooding in Clayton because of the addition of water from thousands of small tributaries. (After Hoyt, W. G., and Langbein, W. B. Floods. © 1955 by Princeton University Press, figure 8, p. 39. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press)
Keywords: streams, rivers, water, floods, flooding, floodplains, crests, streamflows, currents, velocity, velocities, stages, discharges, volumes