Geology and Geomorphology of Alluvial and Fluvial Fans: Terrestrial and Planetary Perspectives
Product code: SP440
Print publication date: 03/07/2018
Geological Society of London, GSL Special Publications, Earth Materials Deposits and Petrology, Sedimentology
Type: Book (Hardback)
Binding: Hardback
ISBN: 9781786202673
Author/Edited by: Edited by D. Ventra and L.E. Clarke
Weight: 0.95kg
Number of pages: 353
Online publication date: 10/06/2018
Lyell Collection URL: https://www.lyellcollection.org/toc/sp/440/1
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Special Publication 440
Alluvial and fluvial fans are the most widespread depositional landform bordering the margins of highland regions and actively subsiding continental basins, across a broad spectrum of tectonic and climatic settings. They are significant to the local morphodynamics of mountain regions and also to the evolution of sediment-routing systems, affecting the propagation and preservation of stratigraphic signals of environmental change over vast areas.
The volume presents case studies discussing the geology and geomorphology of alluvial and fluvial fans from both active systems and ancient ones preserved in the stratigraphic record. It brings together case studies from a range of continents, climatic and tectonic settings, some introducing innovative monitoring and analysis techniques, and it provides an overview of current debates in the field.
This volume will be of particular interest to geologists, geomorphologists, sedimentologists and the general reader with an interest in Earth science.
VENTA D. & CLARKE, L. E. Geology and geomorphology of alluvial and fluvial fans: current progress and research perspectives
Alluvial fans
GILES, P. T., WHITEHOUSE, B. M. & KARYMBALIS, E. Interactions between alluvial fans and axial rivers in Yukon, Canada and Alaska, USA
KARYMBALIS, E., FERENTINOU, M. & GILES, P. T. Use of morphometric variables and self-organizing maps to identify clusters of alluvial fans and catchments in the north Peloponnese, Greece
HARVEY, A. M., STOKES, M., MATHER, A. & WHITFIELD (NÉE MAHER), E. Spatial characteristics of the Pliocene to modern alluvial fan successions in the uplifted sedimentary basins of Almería, SE Spain: review and regional synthesis
LELEU, S. & HARTLEY, A. J. Constraints on synrift intrabasinal horst development from alluvial fan and aeolian deposits (Triassic, Fundy Basin, Nova Scotia)
MATHER, A. E. & STOKES, M. Bedrock structural control on catchment-scale connectivity and alluvial fan processes, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco
VENTRA, D., ABELS, H. A., HILGEN, F. J. & DE BOER, P. L. Orbital-climate control of mass-flow sedimentation in a Miocene alluvial-fan succession (Teruel Basin, Spain)
NICHOLS, G. High-resolution estimates of rates of depositional processes from an alluvial fan succession in the Miocene of the Ebro Basin, northern Spain
GHINASSI, M. & IELPI, A. Morphodynamics and facies architecture of streamflow-dominated, sand-rich alluvial fans, Pleistocene Upper Valdarno Basin, Italy
DEGANUTTI, A. M., TECCA, P. R. & NIGRO, G. Comparative numerical modelling of a debris-flow fan in the Eastern Italian Alps
Fluvial fans
MOSCARIELLO, A. Alluvial fans and fluvial fans at the margins of continental sedimentary basins: geomorphic and sedimentological distinction for geo-energy exploration and development
ARZANI, N. & JONES, S. J. Upstream controls on evolution of dryland alluvial megafans: Quaternary examples from the Kohrud Mountain Range, central Iran
BILMES, A. & VEIGA, G. D. Linking mid-scale distributive fluvial systems to drainage basin area: geomorphological and sedimentological evidence from the endorheic Gastre Basin, Argentina
RADEBAUGH, J., VENTRA, D., LORENZ, R. D., FARR, T., KIRK, R., HAYES, A., MALASKA, M. J., BIRCH, S., LIU, Z. Y.-C., LUNINE, J., BARNES, J., LE GALL, A., LOPES, R., STOFAN, E., WALL, S. & PAILLOU, P. Alluvial and fluvial fans on Saturn’s moon Titan reveal processes, materials and regional geology
MAJUMDER, D. & GHOSH, P. Characteristics of the drainage network of the Kosi Megafan, India and its interaction with the August 2008 flood flow
BURBERY, L. F., MOORE, C. R., JONES, M. A., ABRAHAM, P. M., HUMPHRIES, B. L. & CLOSE, M. E. Study of connectivity of open framework gravel facies in the Canterbury Plains aquifer using smoke as a tracer
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