The unstable rivers and the stable ones: using historical records of channel geometry to understand the processes driving changes in flood hazards in the Pacific Northwest, USA


Allison M Pfeiffer, Western Washington University, Geology Department, Seattle, United States, Scott Wallace Anderson, U.S. Geological Survey, Washington Water Science Center, Tacoma, United States, Brian David Collins, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Department of Earth & Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States, David Montgomery, University of Washington, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States and Erkan Istanbulluoglu, University of Washington, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States