Keywords:
River sediments -- Congresses.
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Sedimentology -- Congresses.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (499 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781444304220
Series Statement:
International Association of Sedimentologists Series ; v.26
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=428029
DDC:
551.3
Language:
English
Note:
Fluvial Sedimentology VI -- Contents -- Preface -- Sediment Transport and Bedforms -- Turbulent sand suspension over dunes -- Dune growth, decay and migration rates during a large-magnitude flood at a sand and mixed sand-gravel bed in the Dutch Rhine river system -- Bedforms of the middle reaches of the Tay Estuary, Scotland -- Flow structure and transport of sand-grade suspended sediment around an evolving braid bar, Jamuna River, Bangladesh -- Modern Fluvial Environments -- Effective discharge for overbank sedimentation on an embanked floodplain along the River Waal, The Netherlands -- RADARSAT imaging of the 1997 Czech Republic flood -- The role of overbank flow in governing the form of an anabranching river: the Fitzroy River, northwestern Australia -- Downstream changes in floodplain character on the Northern Plains of arid central Australia -- Confined meandering river eddy accretions: sedimentology, channel geometry and depositional processes -- The influence of flooding on the erodibility of cohesive sediments along the Sabie River, South Africa -- Erosion of sediments between groynes in the River Waal as a result of navigation traffic -- The geochemical and mineralogical record of the impact of historical mining within estuarine sediments from the upper reaches of the Fal Estuary, Cornwall, UK -- Avulsion: Modern and Ancient -- Causes of avulsion: an overview -- Avulsion and crevassing in the sandy, braided Niobrara River: complex response to base-level rise and aggradation -- Contrasting styles of Holocene avulsion, Texas Gulf Coastal Plain, USA -- Pemiscot Bayou, a large distributary of the Mississippi River and a possible failed avulsion -- Gradual avulsion, river metamorphosis and reworking by underfit streams: a modern example from the Brahmaputra River in Bangladesh and a possible ancient example in the Spanish Pyrenees.
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Holocene avulsion history of the lower Saskatchewan fluvial system, Cumberland Marshes, Saskatchewan-Manitoba, Canada -- Recognizing avulsion deposits in the ancient stratigraphical record -- Controls on River Systems and Alluvial Successions -- The use of models in the interpretation of the effects of base-level change on alluvial architecture -- Subsidence rates and fluvial architecture of rift-related Permian and Triassic alluvial sediments of the southeast Iberian Range, eastern Spain -- Drainage evolution in active mountain belts: extrapolation backwards from present-day Himalayan river patterns -- Controls on the sedimentology of the November 1996 jökulhlaup deposits, Skei -- Alluvial Facies and Architecture -- The influence of aggradation rate on braided alluvial architecture: field study and physical scale-modelling of the Ashburton River gravels, Canterbury Plains, New Zealand -- Sedimentary facies from ground-penetrating radar surveys of the modern, upper Burdekin River of north Queensland, Australia: consequences of extreme discharge fluctuations -- Meander bend reconstruction from an Upper Mississippian muddy point bar at Possum Hollow, West Virginia, USA -- Palaeohydrological parameters of a Proterozoic braided fluvial system (Wilgerivier Formation, Waterberg Group, South Africa) compared with a Phanerozoic example -- Sand- and mud-dominated alluvial-fan deposits of the Miocene Seto Porcelain Clay Formation, Japan -- Sedimentology of the Gwembe Coal Formation (Permian), Lower Karoo Group, mid-Zambezi Valley, southern Zambia -- Sedimentology of the Section Peak Formation (Jurassic), northern Victoria Land, Antarctica -- Reconstruction of fluvial bars from the Proterozoic Mancheral Quartzite, Pranhita-Godavari Valley, India -- Index -- Plate -- Foldout.
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