REPORT:
Geomorphic Change Caused By Outburst Floods And Debris Flows At Mount Rainier, Washington, With Emphasis On Tahoma Creek Valley

Table of Contents

• Abstract
• Introduction
  • Purpose and Scope
  • Description of field area
  • Methods of investigation
  • Acknowledgments
• Relation between outburst floods and debris flows
  • Tahoma Creek valley
    • Dry-weather debris flows
    • Wet-weather debris flows
  • Nisqually River, Kautz Creek and West Fork White River
• Recent geomorphic change in Tahoma Creek valley
  • Erosional zone
    • Measurement of change
    • Slope retreat
  • Depositional zone
  • Comparison to change in other glacierized drainages
• Cause of outburst floods
  • Relation between outburst floods and meteorological variables
  • Hypothesis for the origin of outburst floods
• Possible future geomorphic change
  • Tahoma Creek
  • Nisqually River, Kautz Creek and West Fork White River
• Summary and conclusions
• References cited
• Appendix A: Characteristics of floods and debris flows in studied drainages during the period 1985 to 1992
• Appendix B: Data on stage, conductivity and turbidity

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