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Large rivers : geomorphology and management / edited by Avijit Gupta

Published
Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, [2007]
Copyright Date
©2007
Physical Description
xxi, 689 pages, 13 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
Additional Creators
Gupta, Avijit

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Contents
BACKGROUND: Geology of large river systems / Sampat K. Tandon and Rajiv Sinha -- Hydrology and discharge / Ellen E. Wohl -- Transcontinental moving and storage: the Orinoco and Amazon rivers transfer the Andes to the Atlantic / Robert H. Meade -- Greatest floods and largest rivers / Victor R. Baker -- Classification, architecture, and evolution of large-river deltas / Kazuaki Hori and Yoshiki Saito -- Sedimentology and stratigraphy of large river deposits: recognition in the ancient record, and distinction from ‘Incised Valley Fills’ / Christopher R. Fielding -- CASE STUDIES: Effects of tectonism, climate change, and sea-level change on the form and behaviour of the modern Amazon River and its floodplain / Leal A.K. Mertes and Thomas Dunne -- The Mississippi River system / James C. Knox -- The Colorado River / John C. Schmidt -- The Lena River: hydromorphodynamic features in a deep permafrost zone / Frangois Costard and Emmanude Gautier -- The Danube: morphology, evolution and environmental issues / Denes Loczy -- The Nile: evolution, quaternary river environments and material fluxes / Jamie C. Woodward et al. -- The Congo River, Central Africa / Jurgen Runge -- The Zambezi River / Andy E. Moore et al. -- and The geographic, geological and oceanographic setting of the Indus River / Asif Inam et al. -- The Ganga River / Indra B. Singh -- Erosion and weathering in the Brahmaputra River system / Sunil K. Singh -- The Brahmaputra-Jamuna River, Bangladesh / James L. Best et al. -- The Mekong River: morphology, evolution, management / Avijit Gupta -- Dynamic hydrology and geomorphology of the Yangtze River / Zhongyuan Chen, Kaiqin Xu, and Masataka Watanabe -- MEASUREMENT AND MANAGEMENT: The Nile River: geology, hydrology, hydraulic society / M. Gordon Wolman and Robert F. Giegengack -- Patterns and controls on historical channel change in the Willamette River, Oregon, USA / Jennifer Rose Wallick et al. -- Rivers and humans - unintended consequences / Stanley A. Schumm -- Large rivers from space / Leal A.K. Mertes and T. Tamuka Magadzire -- Channel geometry analysis technique for the lower Mississippi River / Philip J. Soar et al. -- The management of large rivers: technical and political challenges / Ian C. Campbell -- The physical diversity and assessment of a large river system: the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia / Martin C. Thoms, Scott C. Rayburg, and Melissa R. Neave -- Climatic and anthropogenic impacts on water and sediment discharges from the Yangtze River (Changjiarig), 1950-2005 / Kehui Xu et al. -- Large river systems and climate change / Michael D. Blum.
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ISBN
9780470849873 (cloth)
0470849878 (cloth)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Acquisition
Earth & Mineral Sciences copy: Purchased with funds from the Kenneth & Marion Pollock Libraries Program Endowment; 20078.
Endowment Note
Kenneth and Marion Pollock Libraries Program Endowment
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