By G. Mathias Kondolf, Hervé Piégay
Fluvial Geomorphology experiences the biophysical strategies performing in rivers, and the sediment styles and landforms due to them. it's a self-discipline of synthesis, with roots in geology, geography, and river engineering, and with robust interactions with allied fields resembling ecology, engineering and panorama architecture.? This e-book comprehensively reports instruments utilized in fluvial geomorphology, at a degree compatible to steer the choice of analysis equipment for a given query. providing an built-in method of the interdisciplinary nature of the topic, it presents assistance for researchers and execs at the instruments on hand to respond to questions about river recovery and management.??
Thoroughly up to date because the first variation in 2003 via specialists of their subfields, the ebook provides state of the art instruments that experience revolutionized fluvial geomorphology in fresh many years, resembling actual and numerical modelling, distant sensing and GIS, new box innovations, advances in courting, monitoring and sourcing, statistical ways in addition to extra conventional tools equivalent to the platforms framework, stratigraphic research, shape and circulation characterisation and old analysis.???
This book:
- Covers 5 major kinds of geomorphological questions and their linked instruments: old framework; spatial framework; chemical, actual and organic tools; research of methods and types; and destiny figuring out framework.
- Provides assistance on merits and barriers of other instruments for various functions, info assets, gear and provides wanted, and case reports illustrating their software in an built-in perspective.
It is a necessary source for researchers geomorphologists, hydrologists, geologists, engineers, planners, and ecologists eager about river administration, conservation and recovery. it's a worthy supplementary textbook for top point undergraduate and graduate classes in Geography, Geology, Environmental technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and interdisciplinary classes in river administration and restoration.
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L. E. 2002. A multiscale conceptual framework for integrated ecogeomorphological research to support stream naturalization in the agricultural midwest. Environmental Management 29: 16–33. R. , eds. 1999. Changing the Face of the Earth: Engineering Geomorphology. Geomorphology 31(1–4): 1–439 (special issue). K. 1877. Report on the Geology of the Henry Mountains, Washington, DC: US Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region, 160pp. J. 1999. Fluvial geomorphology and river engineering: future roles utilizing a fluvial hydrosystems framework.
The general utility of allostratigraphy compared with lithostratigraphy (definition of units based on lithology) in mapping of Quaternary deposits has been the subject of some debate (Johnson et al. 2009; Rasanen et al. 2009); the arguments in favour of an allostratigraphic approach are based on its utility in defining uncomformity-bounded units relevant to alluvial histories. Morphostratigraphy The concept of alloformations has added useful rigour to the conventional geomorphic tool of mapping and correlating fluvial geomorphic events by the landforms they leave behind.
Acknowledgements Each chapter in this book was peer reviewed by two reviewers, usually one external and one contributor and by the two Editors, with additional reviews commissioned as needed for significantly revised (or new) chapters. We are indebted to the following reviewers who contributed to the improvement of the book: Vic Baker, James Bathurst, Christian Braudrick, Tony Brown, Pierre Clément, John Buffington, Mike Church, Nic Clifford, Peter Downs, Jonathan Friedman, David Gilvear, Ken Gregory, Basil Gomez, Gordon Grant, Angela Gurnell, Jud Harvey, Marwan Hassan, Nicolas Lamouroux, John Laronne, Eric Larsen, Stuart Lane, Fred Liébault, Mike Macklin, Andrew Miller, David Montgomery, Gary Parker, François Petit, Geoffrey Petts, Didier Pont, Michel Pourchet, Ian Reid, Steve Rice, David Sear, Stanley Trimble, Peter Wilcock and Ellen Wohl.