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Lowland floodplain rivers : geomorphological perspectives

Title
Lowland floodplain rivers : geomorphological perspectives / edited by P.A. Carling and G.E. Petts.
Publication
Chichester ; New York : Wiley, ©1992.

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Additional Authors
  • Carling, Paul.
  • Petts, Geoffrey E.
Description
xv, 302 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
British Geomorphological Research Group symposia series
Uniform Title
British Geomorphological Research Group symposia series.
Alternative Title
Low land floodplain rivers.
Subject
  • Floodplains
  • flood plains
  • Plaines inondables > Gestion
  • Plaines alluviales
  • Rives
  • Sédiments fluviaux
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Ch. 1. Modeling Channel Migration and Floodplain Sedimentation in Meandering Streams / A.D. Howard -- Ch. 2. The Reversal Hypothesis and the Maintenance of Riffle-Pool Sequences: A Review and Field Appraisal / N. J. Clifford and K. S. Richards -- Ch. 3. Velocities, Roughness and Dispersion in the Lowland River Severn / K. Beven and P. Carling -- Ch. 4. Bend Scour and Bank Erosion on the Meandering Red River, Louisiana / C. R. Thorne -- Ch. 5. Process Dominance in Bank Erosion Systems / D. M. Lawler -- Ch. 6. Estimation of the Fractal Dimension of Terrain from Lake Size Distributions / S. K. Hamilton, J. M. Melack, M. F. Goodchild and W. M. Lewis -- Ch. 7. Investigating Contemporary Rates of Floodplain Sedimentation / D. E. Walling, T. A. Quine and Q. He -- Ch. 8. Palaeochannels, Palaeoland-surfaces and the Three-dimensional Reconstruction of Floodplain Environmental Change / A. G. Brown and M. Keough.
  • Ch. 9. Influence of Farm Management and Drainage on Leaching of Nitrate from Former Floodlands in a Lowland Clay Catchment / G. L. Harris and T. Parish -- Ch. 10. Floodplain Assessment for Restoration and Conservation: Linking Hydrogeomorphology and Ecology / G. E. Petts, A. R. G. Large, M. T. Greenwood and M. A. Bickerton -- Ch. 11. Channel Changes Related to Low-level Weirs on the River Murray, South Australia / M. C. Thoms and K. F. Walker -- Ch. 12. Application of the Instream Flow Incremental Methodology to Assess Ecological Flow Requirements in a British Lowland River / A. Bullock and A. Gustard -- Ch. 13. Restoration of Lowland Rivers: the German Experience / K. Kern.
ISBN
  • 0471931195
  • 9780471931195
LCCN
91021774
OCLC
  • ocm23971031
  • 23971031
  • SCSB-8814694
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library