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Contemporary problems of physical geography: quaternary ice-damned lakes in the mountains of South Siberia and their influence on the development of intracontinental water run-off systems of North Asia in late pleistocene // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 1998. Issue 2 (5). P. 82-104

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Hydrosphere Catastrophes in Modern of the Earth // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2000. Issue 2 (18). P. 15-21

Cataclysmic superfloods in Modern History of the Earth were a universal and regular event. They were conditioned by the global climate changes. The traces of those floods have been ascertained geologacaly, and their hydraulic parameters have been calculated mathematically. The numerous legends and myths of the Universal Flood gained a trustworthy and objective documentary background at the end of the 20-th century.

About the So-Called Fluvioglacial Deposits and the Place of Diluvial Processes Take in the Lithodynamic Succession // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2003. Issue 4 (36). P. 80-85

The article deals with the existing definitions of fluvioglacial deposits that are chiefly developed in the mountain lands. It also points out the main contradictions in field and laboratory diagnostics of fluvioglacial deposits contained in the fact that lithologic criteria for such diagnostics do not exist in the nature. It refers to all the facies of fluvioglacial deposits in the pre-glacial zone. The absence of lithologic criteria of distinguishing between the so-called fluvioglacial and mountainous alluvium is explained by the structure of all these deposits. It is conditioned by hydrodynamic peculiarities of the floods in which they are developed. Pre-glacial fluvial sediments undergo the process of laying many times both immediately by the glacier margin and under the glacier itself. Thus, it means that according to the well-spread classifications all the melt-water deposits (except pre-glacial lake deposits) should be called «alluvium». Besides, it often happens that some forms of a principally different genesis-diluvial origin-would be taken for the deposits of melt glacier water. The former it their turn have been formed by cataclysmic (i.e. - temporary) floods from ice-dammed lakes which outburst. Unclear diagnostics of water deposits leads to the difficulties in defining criteria to seek alluvial placers. The article shows the place of diluvial deposits in the row of other genetic types of loose sediments. The second part of the article deals with the energy essence of the diluvial morpholithogenesis from the points of natural risks.

// Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2004. Issue 6 (43). P. 164-169