Introduction -- Challenges actions of soil and water management in the changing world -- Climate change as a driver of erosion, sediment dynamics and river morphology transformation -- Ecological restoration and regional sustainable development -- Erosion and sediment transport models and river basin management tools -- Influence of climate change on water quality and drinking water treatment a…
Towards an Understanding of the Morphodynamics and Sedimentary Evolution of Estuaries -- High-Resolution Geophysical Investigations Seaward of the Bann Estuary, Northern Ireland Coast -- A Seabed Classification Approach Based on Multiple Acoustic Sensors in the Hudson River Estuary -- Analysis of Land-Cover Shifts in Time and Their Significance -- Comparison of the Hydrodynamic Character of Thr…
Origins of the Components -- The Travertine Fabric -- Morphology and Facies -- Limestone Solution, Groundwater and Spring Emergence -- Chemical Composition of Source Waters -- Mineralogy and Elemental Composition -- Stable Isotopes -- Organisms Associated with Travertine -- Deposition Processes -- Travertine Dating -- Palaeobiology and Biostratigraphy of Quaternary Travertines -- Climate, Man a…
Litter Dynamics -- Litter Input -- Leaf Retention -- Manipulation of Stream Retentiveness -- Coarse Benthic Organic Matter -- Leaching -- Leaf Mass Loss Estimated by Litter Bag Technique -- Coarse Particulate Organic Matter Budgets -- Leaf Chemical And Physical Properties -- Determination of Total Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Leaf Litter -- Total Protein -- Free Amino Acids -- Determination of To…
Classification and terminology -- Debris flows in history -- Instability of steep slopes -- Mechanism of landslide-triggered debris flows: Liquefaction phenomena due to the undrained loading of torrent deposits -- Debris-flow mechanics -- Entrainment of material by debris flows -- Hyperconcentrated flow — transitional process between water flow and debris flow -- Subaqueous debris flows -- Vo…
The paleoenvironmental context -- Distribution -- Mapping -- Exogenic and endogenic controls -- Coral Biology -- Diversity -- Environmental archive -- Conservation.Following the exciting exploration of hot vent and cold seep ecosystems, the rediscovery of cold-water coral ecosystems with high-technology instrumentation is currently another hot topic in multidisciplinary marine research. Convent…
Crystal Structure — Species — Crystallisation -- Crystal Chemistry of Clay Minerals -- Energy Balances: Thermodynamics — Kinetics -- Isotopic Composition of Clay Minerals -- Surface Properties — Behaviour Rules — Microtextures -- Clays in Soils and Weathered Rocks -- Clays in Sedimentary Environments -- Diagenesis and Very Low-Grade Metamorphism -- Hydrothermal Process — Thermal Met…
Evolution of a Concept -- Stratigraphy: Evolution of a Concept -- The Search for Patterns: Ordering the Framework -- Buried Time: Chronostratigraphy as a Research Tool -- Ecostratigraphy’s Basis, using Silurian and Devonian Examples, with Consideration of the Biogeographic Complication -- Devonian Palynostratigraphy in Western Gondwana -- Carboniferous and Permian Palynostratigraphy -- Biostr…
Model structure and processes -- to the transport equation -- Solving hydrodynamics -- Solving hydrodynamics and dispersion -- Modelling the dispersion of non conservative radionuclides -- Lagrangian dispersion models -- Dispersion in estuaries: an example -- Sensitivity analysis -- Review of some radionuclide dispersion models.This book is a practical guide to the subject of numerical modelli…
Overview -- Production of Mud and Silt -- Transport and Deposition -- Role of Oxygen -- Muddy Depositional Systems -- Burial -- Provenance of Mudstones -- Muddy Basins -- Practicalities.Mud and mudstone, the most abundant of all sediments and sedimentary rocks, are relevant to many different human activities and disciplines and thus have a widely scattered literature. Our book provides the firs…