River Variability and Complexity

by Stanley A. Schumm

Book Overview

Rivers differ among themselves and through time. An individual river can vary significantly downstream, changing its dimensions and pattern dramatically over a short distance. If hydrology and hydraulics were the primary controls on the morphology and behaviour of large rivers, we would expect long reaches of rivers to maintain characteristic and relatively uniform morphologies. In fact, this is not the case - the variability of large rivers indicates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052104099X
• ISBN13: 9780521040990
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.4" x 9.7"