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Title

Palaeohydrology : understanding global change / edited by G. Benito and K.J. Gregory.

Publication

Chichester ; Hoboken : J. Wiley, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Benito, G. (Gerardo)
• Gregory, K. J. (Kenneth John)

Description

x, 396 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

• Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Palaeohydrology includes studies of how the composition, distribution and movement of water on the land surface of the earth over the last 20,000 years has related to past environmental changes. Investigations provide information about the way that hydrology, and in particular, flood discharges, have changed in the past. They also show long-term hydrological trends and their implications for future changes. Past hydroclimate reconstructions related to a variety of past climate and environmental change sequences are critical to understanding future potential changes. They can provide data sets for validating the response of climate models with which to predict future change. Key features of this book include: a world summary of our understanding of palaeohydrological changes. real world examples of past hydrological scenarios in Europe, America, Africa, Asia and Australia.^
• This book will be of use to researchers in fluvial geomorphology, hydrology and sedimentology, as well as professional hydrologists, sedimentologists, palaeocologists, Quaternary scientists and environmental consultants. It will make a good reference book for 2nd/3rd year undergraduates taking courses in Applied Hydrology, Global Change, Environmental Geology, Fluvial Geomorphology, Sedimentology within Departments of Geography, Environmental Science and Geology.
• a long-term perspective of impacts of global changes on the hydrological regime during the last 20,000 years. an associated website containing database, expanded bibliography and reports from international programmes. This book provides a general overview of global palaeohydrology and includes an up to date review of key methodological approaches involved in palaeohydrological construction. The first section provides a global review of palaeohydrology by focusing on major regions of the world. It shows how and why hydrological regimes have changed, and how this knowledge can help in understanding global change. The second section focuses on key methodologies for fluvial palaeohydrology, concerning use of sediment-landform assemblage and hydraulic approaches as well as hydrological methods for palaeohydrological reconstruction.^

Subject

• Climate Change
• Climatic changes
• Paleohydrology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 1. Potential of Palaeohydrology in Relation to Global Change / K. J. Gregory and G. Benito -- Pt. 2. Perspectives -- Ch. 2. INQUA Research and Palaeohydrology / L. Starkel -- Ch. 3. Palaeohydrology and International Global Change Programs / K. Alverson and T. Edwards -- Pt. 3. World Areas -- Ch. 4. Introduction to Regional Palaeohydrologic Regimes and Areas / K. J. Gregory and G. Benito -- Sect. I. High-latitude regions -- Ch. 5. High-latitude Fluvial Morphology: The Example from the Usa River, Northern Russia / J. Vandenberghe and M. Huisink -- Sect. II. Mid-latitude regions -- Ch. 6. The Lateglacial and Holocene Palaeohydrology of Northern Eurasia / A. Sidorchuk, A. Panin and O. Borisova -- Ch. 7. Palaeohydrology of Central Europe / L. Starkel -- Ch. 8. Global Environmental Change and the Palaeohydrology of Western Europe: A Review / A. G. Brown -- Ch. 9. Palaeohydrological Changes in the Mediterranean Region during the Late Quaternary / G. Benito -- Ch. 10. North American Palaeofloods and Future Floods: Responses to Climatic Change / J. C. Knox -- Sect. III. Low-latitude regions -- Ch. 11. Palaeohydrological Reconstructions for Tropical Africa since the Last Glacial Maximum -- Evidence and Problems / M. F. Thomas and M. B. Thorp -- Ch. 12. The Late-Quaternary Palaeohydrology of Large South American Fluvial Systems / E. M. Latrubesse -- Ch. 13. Late Pleistocene -- Holocene Palaeohydrology of Monsoon Asia / V. S. Kale, A. Gupta and A. K. Singhvi -- Ch. 14. Alluvial Evidence of Major Late-Quaternary Climate and Flow-regime Changes on the Coastal Rivers of New South Wales, Australia / G. C. Nanson, T. J. Cohen, C. J. Doyle and D. M. Price -- Pt. 4. Recent Progress Interpreting Evidence of Environmental Change -- Ch. 15. Data Sharing in Palaeohydrology: Changing Perspectives / T. Oguchi, J. Branson and M. J. Clark -- Ch. 16. Fluvial Morphology and Sediments: Archives of Past Fluvial System Response to Global Change / D. Maddy, D. G. Passmore and S. Lewis -- Ch. 17. Palaeohydrological Modelling: from Palaeohydraulics to Palaeohydrology / J. B. Thornes -- Ch. 18. Palaeofloods and Extended Discharge Records / V. R. Baker -- Ch. 19. Palaeohydraulics of Extreme Flood Events: Reality and Myth / P. Carling, R. Kidson, Z. Cao and J. Herget -- Ch. 20. Short-term Hydrological Changes / L. Starkel -- Ch. 21. Palaeohydrology, Environmental Change and River-channel Management / K. J. Gregory -- Pt. 5. Prospect -- Ch. 22. Concluding Perspective / K. J. Gregory and G. Benito -- App. Discussion at the Fifth International Meeting of GLOCOPH in Pune, India, December 2002.

ISBN

0470847395 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003045090

OCLC

51898818

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library