Sediment transport in headwaters of a volcanic catchment—Kamchatka Peninsula case study

doi:10.1007/s11707-016-0632-x

Front. Earth Sci.

2017, Vol. 11

Issue (3) : 565-578 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11707-016-0632-x

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Sediment transport in headwaters of a volcanic catchment—Kamchatka Peninsula case study

Sergey R. CHALOV¹(

), Anatolii S. TSYPLENKOV¹, Jan PIETRON², Aleksandra S. CHALOVA¹, Danila I. SHKOLNYI¹, Jerker JARSJÖ², Michael MAERKER³

¹. Faculty of Geography, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119911, Russia
². Department of Physical Geography and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm 10691, Sweden
³. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Pavia University, Pavia 27100, Italy

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Abstract

Due to specific environmental conditions, headwater catchments located on volcanic slopes and valleys are characterized by distinctive hydrology and sediment transport patterns. However, lack of sufficient monitoring causes that the governing processes and patterns in these areas are rarely well understood. In this study, spatiotemporal water discharge and sediment transport from upstream sources was investigated in one of the numerous headwater catchments located in the lahar valleys of the Kamchatka Peninsula Sukhaya Elizovskaya River near Avachinskii and Koryakskii volcanoes. Three different subcatchments and corresponding channel types (wandering rivers within lahar valleys, mountain rivers within volcanic slopes and rivers within submountain terrains) were identified in the studied area. Our measurements from different periods of observations between years 2012–2014 showed that the studied catchment was characterized by extreme diurnal fluctuation of water discharges and sediment loads that were influenced by snowmelt patterns and high infiltration rates of the easily erodible lahar deposits. The highest recorded sediment loads were up to 9·10⁴ mg/L which was related to an increase of two orders of magnitude within a one day of observations. Additionally, to get a quantitative estimate of the spatial distribution of the eroded material in the volcanic substrates we applied an empirical soil erosion and sediment yield model – modified universal soil loss equation (MUSLE). The modeling results showed that even if the applications of the universal erosion model to different non-agricultural areas (e.g., volcanic catchments) can lead to irrelevant results, the MUSLE model delivered might be acceptable for non-lahar areas of the studied volcanic catchment. Overall the results of our study increase our understanding of the hydrology and associated sediment transport for prediction of risk management within headwater volcanic catchments.

Keywords sediment transport volcanoes lahars Kamchatka Peninsula MUSLE erosion

Corresponding Author(s): Sergey R. CHALOV

Just Accepted Date: 14 December 2016 Online First Date: 24 January 2017 Issue Date: 12 July 2017

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Sergey R. CHALOV,Anatolii S. TSYPLENKOV,Jan PIETRON, et al. Sediment transport in headwaters of a volcanic catchment—Kamchatka Peninsula case study[J]. Front. Earth Sci., 2017, 11(3): 565-578.

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