Braided Rivers (Geological Society Special Publication 75)

Braided Rivers......Page 1
Front matter......Page 2
ISBN 0-903317-88-5......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Sponsors......Page 8
Braided rivers: perspectives and problems......Page 10
The interaction between channel geometry, water flow,\rsediment transport and deposition in braided rivers......Page 22
Understanding braiding processes in gravel-bed rivers:\rprogress and unsolved problems......Page 82
Downstream variation in bed material characteristics:\ra turbulence-controlled form-process feedback mechanism......Page 98
Braiding and meandering parameters......Page 114
Braided-channel pattern and palaeohydrology using\ran index of total sinuosity......Page 122
Mechanisms of anabranch avulsion within gravel-bed\rbraided rivers: observations from a scaled physical model......Page 128
Anabranch confluence kinetics and sedimentation processes\rin gravel-braided streams......Page 138
Pleistocene Rhine gravel: deposits of a braided\rriver system with dominant pool preservation......Page 156
Radar facies: recognition of facies patterns and heterogeneities\rwithin Pleistocene Rhine gravels, NE Switzerland......Page 172
Braided stream and flood-plain deposition in a rapidly\raggrading basin: the Escanilla formation,\rSpanish Pyrenees......Page 186
Avulsive channel systems: characteristics and examples......Page 204
Variability of late Holocene braiding in Britain......Page 214
River management and conservation issues on formerly braided\rriver systems; the case of the River Tay, Scotland......Page 240
A meso-scale field investigation of channel change and floodplain\rcharacteristics in an upland braided gravel-bed river, New Zealand......Page 250
Planform pattern and channel evolution of the Brahmaputra River, Bangladesh......Page 266
Sedimentary structures exposed in bar tops in the\rBrahmaputra River, Bangladesh......Page 287
Sedimentology of the Rough Rock: a Carboniferous braided river\rsheet sandstone in northern England......Page 303
The architecture of fluvial-deltaic sequences in the\rUpper Mesaverde Group (Upper Cretaceous),\rBook Cliffs, Utah......Page 318
A review of braided fluvial hydrocarbon reservoirs: the petroleum engineer\'s perspective......Page 348
Sedimentology and gravel bar morphology in an Archaean\rbraided river sequence: the Witpan Conglomerate Member\r(Witwatersrand Supergroup) in the Welkom Goldfield,\rSouth Africa......Page 384
Provenance of braided alluvial deposits of the Thari Formation,\rRhodes, SE Aegean: evidence for major erosion of an\rophiolite-bearing thrust sheet......Page 404
Debris provenance mapping in braided drainage\rusing remote sensing......Page 420
Index......Page 428
Back cover......Page 435