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Zusammenfassung This volume! also available as part of the collection "Geomorphology: Critical Concepts in Geography" [set ISBN 0-415-27608-X]! constitutes an instant archive of esential benchmark papers and makes available in one place key published material on its area.
List of contents
Acknowledgements; Chronological Table of reprinted articles and chapters; General Editor's preface; Introduction 1 Sediment budget for a small catchment in mountainous terrain 2 Geochemistry of the Amazon: 2. The influence of geology and weathering environment on the dissolved load 3 Fluvial clastic sediment yield in Canada: scaled analysis 4 Effects of construction on fluvial sediment, urban and suburban areas of Maryland 5 The efficiency of humid tropical denudation systems 6 Geomorphic coupling of hillslope and channel systems in two small mountain basins 7 Rates of erosion and sediment evacuation by glaciers: a review of field data and their implications 8 On the longitudinal profile of the graded river 9 River channel patterns: braided, meandering and straight 10 Tests of a general theory of misfit streams 11 Rational and empirical methods of investigation in geology 12 Dynamics of selected mountain streams in the Western United States of America 13 The problem of channel erosion into bedrock 14 Channel-reach morphology in mountain drainage basins 15 Extracts from 'Land sculpture' 16 Classics in physical geography revisited: R.E. Horton 17 Geochemical balance of a small watershed and its geomorphic implications 18 The stratigraphy and morphology of para-glacial alluvial fans in south-central British Columbia 19 Geomorphic thresholds and complex response of drainage systems 20 The probabilistic-topologic approach to drainage-basin geomorphology 21 Relative scales of time and effectiveness of climate in watershed geomorphology 22 Climate-driven bedrock incision in an active mountain belt
