Flood geology and the frequency of "X year floods"--a primer

In her guest post at Highly Allochthonous, hydrogeologist Anne Jefferson explains how one can have two "500 year floods" in short measure. Great reading...

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Thanks for this post/link. I was wondering about the source of the probabilities of flood predictions...

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