Overview
- Offers a state-of-the-art, practical research and management guide on alluvial fans
- Combines existing global literature with regional case studies
- Includes 49 color figures related to alluvial fans worldwide
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Principles of Alluvial Fan Morphology
Authors: Dan Bowman
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1558-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1556-8Published: 21 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1558-2Published: 09 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 151
Number of Illustrations: 45 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sedimentology, Geomorphology, Soil Science & Conservation, Environmental Geography, Natural Hazards