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Braided rivers

Title
Braided rivers / edited by J.L. Best, & C.S. Bristow.
Publication
London : Geological Society, 1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Best, J. L.
  • Bristow, C. S.
Description
vii, 419 pages, [4] folded leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 26 cm
Series Statement
Geological Society special publication ; no. 75
Uniform Title
Geological Society special publication ; no. 75.
Subject
  • Alluvial streams
  • Sediment transport
  • Alluvial streams
  • Sediment transport
  • Flussbett
  • Flussmäander
  • Fluviale Sedimentation
  • Geomorphogenese
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Rivieren
  • Acao Dos Rios (Geologia)
  • Sedimentologia
  • Cours d'eau alluvionnaires
  • Sédiments (géologie) > Transport
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Braided rivers: perspectives and problems / Bristow, C.S. and J.L. Best -- The interaction between channel geometry, water flow, sediment transport and deposition in braided rivers / Bridge, J.S. -- Understanding braiding processes in gravel-bed rivers: progress and unsolved problems / Ferguson, R.I. -- Downstream variation in bed material characteristics: a turbulence-controlled form-process feedback mechanism / Clifford, N.J. et al -- Braiding and meandering parameters / Friend, P.F. and R. Sinha -- Braided-channel pattern and palaeohydrology using an index of total sinuosity / Robertson-Rintoul, M.S.E. and K.S. Richards -- Mechanisms of anabranch avulsion within gravel-bed braided rivers: observations from a scaled physical model / Leddy, J.O., P.J. Ashworth and J.L. Best -- Anabranch confluence kinetics and sedimentation processes in gravel-braided streams / Ashmore, P. -- Pleistocene Rhine gravel: deposits of a braided river system with dominant pool preservation / Siegenthaler, C. and P. Huggenberger -- Radar facies: recognition of facies patterns and heterogeneities within Pleistocene Rhine gravels, NE Switzerland / Huggenberger, P. -- Braided stream and flood-plain deposition in a rapidly aggrading basin: the Escanilla formation, Spanish Pyrenees / Bentham, P.A., P.J. Talling and D.W. Burbank -- Avulsive channel systems: characteristics and examples / Richards, K., S. Chandra and P. Friend -- Variability of late Holocene braiding in Britain / Passmore, D.G. et al.
ISBN
  • 0903317885
  • 9780903317887
  • 0903317931
  • 9780903317931
OCLC
  • ocm29538248
  • 29538248
  • SCSB-8815859
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library