Fluvial Sedimentology VII

About this book

IAS Special Publication 35, Fluvial Sedimentology VII, comprises of a series of peer-reviewed papers that were initially presented at the 7th International Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology, held in Lincoln, Nebraska on August 6-10, 2001. The 29 papers in this volume reflect the topical and geographic diversity of exciting research conducted by fluvial sedimentologists at the beginning of the 21st century. Themes represented in this volume include (a) flow, sediment transport, and bedform dynamics, (b) characteristics of modern fluvial landforms, environments and systems, (c) physical analogue and numerical modeling of fluvial systems, (d) the responses of Quaternary fluvial systems to climate change, active tectonics, and/or sea-level change, and (e) characteristics of pre-Quaternary fluvial deposits and evolution of pre-Quaternary fluvial systems.

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Fluvial Processes and Forms
1 Origin of anastomosis in the Upper Columbia River, British Columbia, Canada
2 Review of Amazonian depositional systems
3 Kinematics, topology and significance of dune-related macroturbulence: some observations from the laboratory and field
4 Derivation of annual reach-scale sediment transfers in the River Coquet, Northumberland, UK
5 Dune-phase fluvial transport and deposition model of gravelly sand
6 Morphology and fluvio-aeolian interaction of the tropical latitude, ephemeral-braided river dominated Koigab Fan, NW Namibia
7 A qualitative analysis of the distribution of bed surface elevation and the characteristics of associated deposit for subaqueous dunes
8 Braided gravel-bed rivers with a limited width: preliminary results of a hydraulic model study
9 Morphology and facies of sandy braided rivers: some considerations of scale invariance
10 The application of laser diffraction grain-size analysis to reveal depositional processes in tidally-influenced systems
11 Sedimentology and avulsion patterns of the anabrancing Baghmati River in the Himalayan foreland basin, India
12 Estimating bed load in sand-bed channels using bottom tracking from an Acoustic Doppler Profiler

Part II: Experimental and Numerical Modelling
13 Morphological and stratigraphic effects of base-level change: a review of experimental studies
14 A mass-balance framework for quantifying downstream changes in fluvial architecture

Part III: Quaternary Fluvial Systems
15 The linkage between alluvial and coeval nearshore marine successions: evidence from the Late Quaternary record of the Po River Plain, Italy
16 Depositional processes in latest Pleistocene and Holocene ephemeral streams of the main Ethiopian Rift, Ethiopia
17 Fluvio-deltaic floodbasin deposits recording differential subsidence within a coastal prism (central Rhine-Meuse delta, the Netherlands)
18 Geomorphology and internal architecture of the ancestral Burdekin River across the Great Barrier Reef Shelf, NE Australia
19 Quaternary alluvial stratigraphic development in a desert setting: a case study from the Luni Riverbasin, Thar Desert of western India
20 The Middle Valley of the Tiber River, central Italy: Plio-Pleistocene fluvial and coastal sedimentation, extensional tectonics and volcanism

Part IV: Pre-Quaternary Fluvial Systems
21 Transport modes and grain-size patterns in fluvial basins
22 Gulf of Mexico basin depositional record of Cainozoic North American drainage basin evolution
23 Fluvial-estuarine transitions in fluvial-dominated successions: examples from the Lower Pennsylvanian of the Central Appalachina Basin
24 Palaeogeography and fluvial to estuarine architecture of the Dakota Formation (Cretaceous, Albian), eastern Nebraska, USA
25 Improved understanding of fluvial architecture using three-dimensional geological models: a case study of Westphalian A Silkstone Rock, Pennine Basin, UK
26 Changing alluvial style in response to changing accommodation rate in a proximal foreland basin setting: Upper Cretaceous Dunvegan Formation, NE British Columbia, Canada
27 A new evaluation of fining-upward sequences in a mud-rock dominated succession of the Lower Old Red Sandstone of South Wales, Uk
28 Reservoir scale sequence stratigraphy for hydrocarbon production and development: Tarbat-Ipundu, SW Queensland, Australia
29 Recognition of a floodplain within braid delta deposits of the Oligocene Minato Formation, NE Japan: fine deposits correlated with transgression

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