Lowland floodplain rivers : geomorphological perspectives /

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Imprint:Chichester [England] ; New York : Wiley, c1992.
Description:xv, 302 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:British Geomorphological Research Group symposia series
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1282399
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Other authors / contributors:Carling, Paul
Petts, Geoffrey E.
ISBN:0471931195 (ppc) : $88.00 (U.S.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Modeling Channel Migration and Floodplain Sedimentation in Meandering Streams / A.D. Howard
  • Ch. 2. The Reversal Hypothesis and the Maintenance of Riffle-Pool Sequences: A Review and Field Appraisal / N. J. Clifford and K. S. Richards
  • Ch. 3. Velocities, Roughness and Dispersion in the Lowland River Severn / K. Beven and P. Carling
  • Ch. 4. Bend Scour and Bank Erosion on the Meandering Red River, Louisiana / C. R. Thorne
  • Ch. 5. Process Dominance in Bank Erosion Systems / D. M. Lawler
  • Ch. 6. Estimation of the Fractal Dimension of Terrain from Lake Size Distributions / S. K. Hamilton, J. M. Melack, M. F. Goodchild and W. M. Lewis
  • Ch. 7. Investigating Contemporary Rates of Floodplain Sedimentation / D. E. Walling, T. A. Quine and Q. He
  • Ch. 8. Palaeochannels, Palaeoland-surfaces and the Three-dimensional Reconstruction of Floodplain Environmental Change / A. G. Brown and M. Keough
  • Ch. 9. Influence of Farm Management and Drainage on Leaching of Nitrate from Former Floodlands in a Lowland Clay Catchment / G. L. Harris and T. Parish
  • Ch. 10. Floodplain Assessment for Restoration and Conservation: Linking Hydrogeomorphology and Ecology / G. E. Petts, A. R. G. Large, M. T. Greenwood and M. A. Bickerton
  • Ch. 11. Channel Changes Related to Low-level Weirs on the River Murray, South Australia / M. C. Thoms and K. F. Walker
  • Ch. 12. Application of the Instream Flow Incremental Methodology to Assess Ecological Flow Requirements in a British Lowland River / A. Bullock and A. Gustard
  • Ch. 13. Restoration of Lowland Rivers: the German Experience / K. Kern.