Keith Richards

Rivers

Form and Process in Alluvial Channels

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• Gewicht: 852g
• ISBN-13: 9781032737584
• ISBN-10: 1032737581
• Artikelnr.: 70145921

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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