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Varieties of fluvial form

Title
Varieties of fluvial form / edited by Andrew J. Miller and Avijit Gupta.
Publication
Chichester ; New York : J. Wiley, ©1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Miller, Andrew J.
  • Gupta, Avijit.
Description
xvi, 521 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.
Summary
"This collection of papers is based largely on contributions by participants in a series of special sessions at the June 1995 South East Asia Conference of the International Association of Geomorphologists." "The underlying premise was that the world's rivers encompass a wide range of influences and associated fluvial forms, but that the geomorphic literature traditionally has focused most intensively on a subset of those forms (mostly comprised of alluvial rivers from humid temperate, semiarid or proglacial environments), and may not treat a spectrum of morphological types that is proportionately representative of the rivers that actually exist on the earth's surface. Thus the intention of this volume is, first and foremost, to present an international set of case studies with a strong descriptive component, representing the diversity of fluvial forms."--Jacket.
Series Statement
International Association of Geomorphologists ; no. 7
Uniform Title
Publication (International Association of Geomorphologists) ; no. 7.
Subject
  • Rivers > Congresses
  • Geomorphology > Congresses
  • Geomorphology
  • Rivers
  • Fließgewässer
  • Geomorphologie
  • Kongress
  • RIVERS
  • GEOMORPHOLOGY
  • CONFERENCES
  • Géomorphologie fluviale > Congrès
  • Hydrologie fluviale > Congrès
  • Cours d'eau
  • Géomorphologie
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Extraterrestrial fluvial forms / V.R. Baker and G. Komatsu -- Bedrock anastomosing channel systems: morphology and dynamics in the Sabie River, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa / A.W. van Niekerk ... [et al.] -- Geomorphology of the Sabie River, South Africa: an incised bedrock-influenced channel / G.L. Heritage, A.W. van Niekerk and B.P. Moon -- Geomorphology of the Green River in the eastern Uinta Mountains, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado and Utah / Paul E. Grams and John C. Schmidt -- The Narmada River, India, through space and time / Avijit Gupta, Vishwas S. Kale and S.N. Rajaguru -- Drainage evolution and morphological development of the late Cenozoic Sundays River, South Africa / Johan Hattingh and Izak C. Rust -- Fluvial evolution in areas with volcanic and tectonic activity: the Armeria River, Mexico / David Palacios and Armando Chavez -- Boulder bedforms in jointed-bedrock channels / Rainer Wende.
  • (Continued) Floodouts in central Australia / Stephen Tooth -- Fluvial form variability in arid central Australia / Mary C. Bourke and Geoff Pickup -- The Uniab River fan: an unusual alluvial fan on the hyper-arid Skeleton Coast, Namibia / A.C.T. Scheepers and I.C. Rust -- Downstream adjustments in Allochthonous rivers: western Deccan Trap Upland Region, India / Leena A. Deodhar and Vishwas S. Kale -- Debris flow and sheetflood fans of the northern Prince Charles Mountains, east Antarctica / John A. Webb and Christopher R. Fielding.
  • (Continued) The Fly River, Papua New Guinea: inferences about river dynamics, floodplain sedimentation and fate of sediment / William E. Dietrich, Geoff Day and Gary Parker -- Downstream changes in valley confinement as a control on floodplain morphology, lower Tuross River, New South Wales, Australia: a constructivist approach to floodplain analysis / Rob J. Ferguson and Gary J. Brierley -- Flow and sedimentation at tributary river mouths: a comparison with mesotidal estuaries / Barbara A. Kennedy -- Geomorphology and coastline change of the lower Yangtze delta plain, China / Zhongyuan Chen -- In-channel benches: the role of floods in their formation and destruction on bedrock-confined rivers / Wayne D. Erskine and Elizabeth A. Livingstone -- Anabranching rivers: divided efficiency leading to fluvial diversity / Gerald C. Nanson and H.Q. Huang -- Varieties of fluvial form: the relevance to geologists of an expanded reality / Christopher R. Fielding -- Towards an understanding of varieties of fluvial form / M.J. Kirkby.
ISBN
  • 0471973513
  • 9780471973515
LCCN
98036750
OCLC
  • ocm39606599
  • 39606599
  • SCSB-8817339
Owning Institutions
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