Fluvial Sedimentology VI: (Special Publication 28 of the IAS)

by Norman D. Smith (University of Nebraska-Lincoln); John Rogers (University of Cape Town)

• ISBN13: 9781444304220
• ISBN10: 1444304224
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-03-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Understanding of rivers and their sediments, both as modern systems and as ancient counterparts in the geological record, has progressed steadily but markedly over the past several decades, with contributions by practitioners in diverse fields of geosciences and engineering. This book contains 31 papers, with authors from 13 countries, who participated in the Sixth International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology held in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1977. True to the nature of these quadrennial conferences, the papers in this book discuss a broad range of fluvial subjects that include the character of bedforms and sediment transport in river channels, morphological and sedimentological features of modern fluvial environments, modern and ancient avulsions, internal and external controls on the behaviour of river systems, and the facies and architectural organization of alluvial deposits. A specialist volume detailing the latest advances in fluvial sedimentology. Authorship includes the leaders in the field.If you are a member of the International Association of Sedimentologists, for purchasing details, please see: http://www.iasnet.org/publications/details.asp?code=SP28

Table of Contents

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 In 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 Rhine, 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 Erodability Of Cohesive Sediments Along The Sabie River, South Africa

Erosion Of Sediments Between Groynes In The Waal River Due To 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 Possible Failed Avulsion

Avulsion, River Metamorphosis, And Reworking By Underfit Streams: A Modern Example From The Brahamputra River In Bangladesh And A Possible Ancient Example In The Spanish Pyrenees

Holocene Avulsion History Of The Lower Saskatchewan Fluvial System, Cumberland Marshes, Saskatchewan-Manitoba

Recognizing Avulsion Deposits In The Ancient Stratigraphic 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 SE Iberian Ranges, Eastern Spain

Drainage Evolution In Active Mountain Belts: Extrapolation Backwards From Present-Day Himalayan River Patterns

Controls On The Sedimentology Of November 1996 Jokulhlaup Deposits, Skeioarasandur, Iceland

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 GPR Surveys Of The Modern, Upper Burdekin River Of North Queensland, Australia: Consequences Of Extreme Discharge Fluctuations

Meander Bend Reconstruction From An Upper Mississippian Fine-Grained Muddy Point Bar At Possum Hollow, West Virginia

Palaeohydrological Parameters Of A Proterozoic Braided Fluvial System 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, Antartica

Reconstruction Of Fluvial Bars From The Proterozoic Mancheral Quartzite, Pranhita-Godavari Valley, India

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