Fluvial Sedimentology VIISBN: 978-0-632-05354-4
Paperback
488 pages
November 1999, Wiley-Blackwell
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Understanding of rivers and their sediments, both as modern systems
and as ancient counterparts in the geological record, has
progressed steadily but markedly over the past several decades,
with contributions by practitioners in diverse fields of
geosciences and engineering. This book contains 31 papers, with
authors from 13 countries, who participated in the Sixth
International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology held in Cape
Town, South Africa, in 1977. True to the nature of these
quadrennial conferences, the papers in this book discuss a broad
range of fluvial subjects that include the character of bedforms
and sediment transport in river channels, morphological and
sedimentological features of modern fluvial environments, modern
and ancient avulsions, internal and external controls on the
behaviour of river systems, and the facies and architectural
organization of alluvial deposits.
- A specialist volume detailing the latest advances in fluvial
sedimentology.
- Authorship includes the leaders in the field.
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