UID:
almafu_9959328614102883
Umfang:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781118305447
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1118305442
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9781118305423
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1118305426
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9781118305430
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1118305434
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9781118305454
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1118305450
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1405192755
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9781405192750
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9781405192743
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1405192747
Inhalt:
Filling a niche in the geomorphology teaching market, this introductory book is built around a 12 week course in fluvial geomorphology. 'Reading the landscape' entails making sense of what a riverscape looks like, how it works, how it has evolved over time, and how alterations to one part of a catchment may have secondary consequences elsewhere, over different timeframes. These place-based field analyses are framed within their topographic, climatic and environmental context. Issues and principles presented in the first part of this book provide foundational understandings tha.
Anmerkung:
COMPANION WEBSITE -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Purpose and aims of this book -- Structure of the book -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER ONE: Geomorphic analysis of river systems: an approach to reading the landscape -- Introduction -- How is geomorphology useful? -- Geomorphic analysis of river systems: our approach to reading the landscape -- Key messages from this chapter -- CHAPTER TWO: Key concepts in river geomorphology -- Introduction -- Spatial considerations in reading the landscape
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Catchment linkages and (dis)connectivityConceptualisation of time -- Differentiating behaviour from change -- Disturbance events -- Magnitudeâ€"frequency relationships in river systems -- River sensitivity and resilience -- Catchment-specific analysis of river systems: combining spatial and temporal concepts -- Conclusion -- Key messages from this chapter -- CHAPTER THREE: Catchment-scale controls on river geomorphology -- Introduction: what is a catchment? -- Process zones in catchments: sediment source, transfer and accumulation zones
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Longitudinal profiles of riversGeomorphic transitions along river longitudinal profiles -- Catchment morphometrics as controls on river character and behaviour -- Geologic controls on drainage network form, and river character and behaviour -- The influence of catchment configuration upon flow and sediment flux -- Conclusion -- Key messages from this chapter -- CHAPTER FOUR: Catchment hydrology -- Introduction: what is hydrology? -- The hydrological cycle -- Operation of the hydrological cycle -- Runoff generation -- Groundwater flows
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Catchment-scale runoff and discharge generation modelsChannel initiation -- Gully and channel formation -- Flow regimes of perennial, intermittent and ephemeral rivers -- Discharge and the magnitude/frequency of flow in river systems -- Flood stages and hydrographs -- Analysis of hydrograph shape -- Discharge measurement -- Flow frequency -- Flow variability -- Conclusion -- Key messages from this chapter -- CHAPTER FIVE: Impelling and resisting forces in river systems -- Introduction
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Impelling and resisting forces and Laneâ€"! balance of erosion and deposition in channelsMechanics of fluid flow -- Impelling forces in river channels -- Resisting forces in channels -- Vegetation and wood as resistance elements in river systems -- Manningâ€"! n as a unifying roughness parameter -- The balance of impelling and resisting forces along longitudinal profiles -- Conclusion -- Key messages from this chapter -- CHAPTER SIX: Sediment movement and deposition in river systems -- Introduction
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Fryirs, Kirstie A. Geomorphic analysis of river systems. Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2013 ISBN 9781405192750
Sprache:
Englisch
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118305454
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118305454
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781118305454
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