Active channel in the Lower Virgin River after a 40 yr flood (December 2010)

Publication Date

2019-10-28

Start Date

2008-07-01

End Date

2011-11-01

Shafroth, P.B., Gonzalez, E., Lee, S.R., Leverich, G.T., Orr, B.K., Ostoja, S.M., Real de Asua, R., Rodriguez, K., Sherry, R.A., and Wahlig, E., 2019, Riparian vegetation, topography, sediment quality, and river corridor geomorphology in the Lower Virgin River, Nevada and Arizona, before (2010) and after (2011-2012) a 40-year return period flood: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9CSRABT.

The purpose of the data was to study short-term geomorphic and riparian vegetation responses to a large magnitude flood in the context of an invasion of a plant engineer species. We aimed to: i) quantify the changes in channel geometry, topography and sediment quality caused by the flood, and ii) identify plant species and groups that are more or less favored by erosion and deposition of sediments.

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