River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-39270-9
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 1280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 2562 g

The Proceedings of the 4th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics offers the latest research results concerning quantitative modelling of the interaction of water and sediment and the shapes this interaction makes. Morphodynamics is the study of the evolution of landscape and seascape features, from small scale to large, in response to the erosion and deposition of sediment. The erosion and deposition of sediment is in turn driven by an interaction between the mechanics of flow in a river, debris flow or turbidity current and the mechanics of sediment transport by the flow. Morphodynamics offers an avenue for the explanation of the evolution of consistent, self-adjusting morphologies such as drainage basins, the long profiles of rivers or the shape of shorelines, and the persistence of rhythmic features such as beach cusps, sediment waves and planform meandering. This year's conference proceedings differ from the proceedings of previous conferences in that both large-scale and submarine morphodynamics have been integrated into the scope of the volume. The papers are highly interdisciplinary, covering such diverse areasas geomorphology open-channel hydraulics, sediment transport dynamics, fluid mechanics, ecohydraulics, sedimentology and stratigraphy. The papers include a mix of basic and applied research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parker, Gary

Garcia, Marcelo H.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Hydrologie, Hydrogeologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements
VOLUME 1

Sediment transport processes
Mountain rivers
Deltas, estuaries, bays
Fluvial and coastal turbulent flow
Numerical modelling of river morphodynamics
River response to floods
Coastal morphodynamics
River confluences and distributaries
Bars and braiding
Reservoirs and dams
Turbidity currents and submarine morphodynamics
Author index
VOLUME 2

Tidal flats
Large-scale morphodynamics
River bends and meandering
River bedforms
Scour and bank erosion
Coastal and shelf bedforms
Sediment transport of mixed sizes
Watersheds and hillslopes
River engineering and stream restoration
Author index

Über Autor(innen)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA