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Ellen Wohl

Rivers in the Landscape

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Rivers are the great shapers of terrestrial landscapes. Very few points on Earth above sea level do not lie within a drainage basin. Even points distant from the nearest channel are likely to be influenced by that channel. Tectonic uplift raises rock thousands of meters above sea level. Precipitation falling on the uplifted terrain concentrates into channels that carry sediment downward to the oceans and influence the steepness of adjacent hill slopes by governing the rate at which the landscape incises. Rivers migrate laterally across lowlands, creating a complex topography of terraces, floodplain wetlands and channels. Subtle differences in… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-119-53543-0
  • EAN: 9781119535430
  • Produktnummer: 33330989
  • Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 512 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 28'302 KB
  • Auflage: 2. Aufl.

Über den Autor


ELLEN WOHL is a Professor in the Department of Geosciences at Colorado State University. She has over twenty-five years' experience in teaching fluvial geomorphology at the graduate level in courses with students from the earth sciences, civil engineering, ecology, and other disciplines. She has written several books about rivers for non-technical audiences as well as the more technical books Mountain Rivers, and its second edition, Mountain Rivers Revisited.

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