Principles of Alluvial Fan Morphology

Principles of Alluvial Fan Morphology
ISBN-10
9402415564
ISBN-13
9789402415568
Category
Science
Language
English
Published
2018-11-21
Publisher
Springer
Author
Dan Bowman

Description

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the alluvial fan phenomena, including all terminology, morphology, sedimentology, controlling factors, processes and the human impact. It combines the knowledge dispersed widely in existing literature with regional case studies, color figures and photographs. The chapters provide a useful basis to understand alluvial fans and a selection of papers attached to each chapter offers additional, more focused reading. This volume is aimed at engineers, planners and especially students in earth sciences.

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