River processes : an introduction to fluvial dynamics / created by Andre Robert.

Includes bibliography and index

WATER FLOW: BASIC PRINCIPLES AND CHARACTERIZATION: Space and time considerations Mechanical potential energy Types of flow Boundary layer Flow resistance equations Flow turbulence FLUVIAL SEDIMENT: PROCESSES OF EROSION AND TRANSPORT: Grain characteristics Bulk sediment properties Erosional processes Modes of transport and suspended sediment Bedload transport BEDFORMS: Bed - flow - sediment transport interactions Sand-bed rivers Small-scale bedforms in coarse-grained channels Riffle-pool sequences Bedload sheets and low-relief bed waves Roughness transitions Form roughness and macro-scale bedforms in coarse-grained channels FLOW AND SEDIMENT DYNAMICS IN CURVED, BRAIDED, AND CONFLUENT CHANNELS: Channel patterns: classification Meandering channels Braided channels Channel confluences RIVER CHANNELS, AQUATIC HABITATS, AND THE HYPORHEIC ZONE: Vegetation, sediments, and aquatic habitats Scour depth and salmonid egg burial depths Sediment transport and deposition in spawning gravels The hyporheic zone

"River Processes provides a comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge about physical processes in alluvial channels, with an emphasis on the recent work on flow-bed-sediment transport interactions. It is intended primarily for senior undergraduate students and graduate students interested in fluvial studies as part of physical geography, each sciences, environmental sciences and ecology courses. The textbook is fully illustrated throughout with line drawings and photographs"--Jacket