Rivers

Form and Process in Alluvial Channels
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-73758-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 700 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

Originally published in 1982, this book presents a detailed review of alluvial river form and process and integrates the distinct but related approaches of geomorphologists, geologists and engineers to the subject. It outlines the environmental catchment factors that control the development of channel equilibrium and provides a detailed account of the sediment transport processes that represent the physical mechanisms by which channel adjustment occurs. Where possible it evaluates theoretical analyses in the context of the empirical evidence. Rivers should prove a valuable textbook for geomorphology students on advanced undergraduate courses on river behaviour and will also be of interest to students of hydraulics and sedimentology and to those concerned with civil and environmental engineering, river management and channel design, maintenance and management in the water industry

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richards, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Hydrologie, Hydrogeologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Alluvial River Channels: Their Nature and Significance 2. The Drainage Basin: Environmental Controls of the River Channel 3. The Mechanics of Flow and in the Initiation of Sediment Transport 4. Sediment Transport Processes 5. The Magnitude and Frequency of Channel-Forming Events 6. The Morphology of River Cross-Sections 7. River Channel Pattern: Processes, Forms and Sedimentology 8. Channel Gradient and the Long Profile 9. River Channel Changes: Adjustments of Equilibrium 10. Channel Management and Design

Über Autor(innen)

Keith Richards is Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Fellow of Emmanuel College. He has been a member of the Department since 1984, and before that was at the University of Hull. He originally graduated from Cambridge, both at Bachelor and PhD levels. During his career he has published in several areas of geomorphology, but his main research focus has been in fluvial geomorphology. He has been Secretary and Chairman of the British Geomorphological Research Group, and an editor of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. He has written or edited nine books and about 150 papers