Principles of Alluvial Fan Morphology (eBook)
XIII, 151 Seiten
Springer Netherlands (Verlag)
978-94-024-1558-2 (ISBN)
Prof. Dan Bowman is Professor Emeritus at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beer-Sheva, Israel and at the nearby Achva Academic College. Prior to his retirement in 2007, he worked as an active Lecturer and Professor at the Department of Geography and Environmental Development of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev for over 25 years. His courses included nearshore circulation, coastal morphology, alluvial fans, tectonic morphology and system approach.
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.
Prof. Dan Bowman is Professor Emeritus at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beer-Sheva, Israel and at the nearby Achva Academic College. Prior to his retirement in 2007, he worked as an active Lecturer and Professor at the Department of Geography and Environmental Development of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev for over 25 years. His courses included nearshore circulation, coastal morphology, alluvial fans, tectonic morphology and system approach. Prof. Dan Bowman has a B.A. and a M.A. in Geography as well as a Ph.D. in Geomorphology. He has co-authored over 65 scientific publications including peer-reviewed articles in international journals such as Environmental Monitoring and Assessment and Instructional Sciences, scientific reports, technical papers and chapters in collective volumes, conference proceedings a chapter (i.e. in the book Geomorphological Landscapes of the World).
1 Definitions and Setting
2 Magnitude and Sourcing
2.1 Fan Sourcing
2.2 Dimensions
2.3 Megafans
3 Slope Gradients
3.1 Slopes and Profiles
3.2 Controlling Factors
4 Fan Morphometry
4.1 Definitions
4.2 Fan Area vs Drainage Area
4.3 Fan Slope vs Drainage Area
5 Drainage
5.1 Fan Zonation
5.2 Fan Spread
5.3 Avulsion
5.4 Compensational Stacking
6 Flows
6.1 Water and Hyperconcentrated Flows
6.2 Debris Flows
7 Aggradation
8 Fan Entrenchment
8.1 The Switch to Entrenchment
8.2 Controls of Entrenchment
8.3 Erosional Morphology
9 Textural and Facies Characteristics
9.1 Grain Size
9.2 Facies
10 Pedogenic Processes
10.1 Development of Reg Soils
10.2 Calcretisation and Salt Weathering
10.3 Varnish and Soil Rubification
10.4 Desert Pavement
11 The Tectonic Control
11.1 Faulting of alluvial fan
11.2 Displaced fans
11.3 Subsidence and Stacking
11.4 Sinuosity of the mountain front
12 The Climatic Control
12.1 The Effect of Vegetation
12.2 Water/Sediment Discharge Ratio
12.3 The Paraglacial Impact
12.4 Humid and Arid Impacts
13 The Base Level Effect
14 Groundwater
14.1 Compartmentalization
14.2 Contamination, Recharge and Tectonic Effects
14.3 Subsidence
15 Morphology of the Fan Surface
15.1 Fan Terraces
15.2 Surface Roughness and Smoothing
15.3 Geomorphological Data
16 Dating of Alluvial Fans
16.1 Absolute Dating
16.2 Relative Dating
16.3 Rates of Deposition and Erosion
17 The System Approach
17.1 Transitional Unstable Conditions
17.2 Feedbacks
17.3 Controls
17.4 Coupling
18 Natural Hazards
18.1 The Hazards
18.2 Hazard Mapping
18.3 Protective Devices
19 The Regional Approach - Alluvial Fans along the Dead Sea-Arava Rift Valley
19.1 Setting
19.2 Lake Lisan and the Dead Sea
19.3 The drop of Lake Lisan - Exposure of the Dead Sea Area
19.4 Fan Incision
19.5 The Lowering Base-Level Effect
19.6 The Arava Rift Valley
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.11.2018 |
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| Zusatzinfo | XIII, 151 p. 50 illus., 5 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie | |
| Schlagworte | Alluvial Fan Morphology • Alluvial fan phenomena • Dead Sea Arava Rift Valley • Environmental Geography • Human Impact and Climatic Control • Sedimentology • Understanding alluvial fans |
| ISBN-10 | 94-024-1558-0 / 9402415580 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-94-024-1558-2 / 9789402415582 |
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