Fluvial sedimentology VII / edited by Michael D. Blum, Susan B. Marriott, and Suzanne F. Leclair

Includes bibliographical references and index

CONTENTS Preface Fluvial Processes and Forms 1 Origin of anastomosis in the Upper Columbia River, British Columbia, Canada 2 Review of Amazonian depositional systems 3 Kinematics, topology and significance of dune-related macroturbulence: some observations from the laboratory and field 4 Derivation of annual reach-scale sediment transfers in the River Coquet, Northumberland, UK 5 Dune-phase fluvial transport and deposition model of gravelly sand 6 Morphology and fluvio-aeolian interaction of the tropical latitude, ephemeral-braided river dominated Koigab Fan, NW Namibia 7 A qualitative analysis of the distribution of bed surface elevation and the characteristics of associated deposit for subaqueous dunes 8 Braided gravel-bed rivers with a limited width: preliminary results of a hydraulic model study 9 Morphology and facies of sandy braided rivers: some considerations of scale invariance 10 The application of laser diffraction grain-size analysis to reveal depositional processes in tidally-influenced systems 11 Sedimentology and avulsion patterns of the anabrancing Baghmati River in the Himalayan foreland basin, India 12 Estimating bed load in sand-bed channels using bottom tracking from an Acoustic Doppler Profiler Experimental and Numerical Modelling 13 Morphological and stratigraphic effects of base-level change: a review of experimental studies 14 A mass-balance framework for quantifying downstream changes in fluvial architecture Quaternary Fluvial Systems 15 The linkage between alluvial and coeval nearshore marine successions: evidence from the Late Quaternary record of the Po River Plain, Italy 16 Depositional processes in latest Pleistocene and Holocene ephemeral streams of the main Ethiopian Rift, Ethiopia 17 Fluvio-deltaic floodbasin deposits recording differential subsidence within a coastal prism (central Rhine-Meuse delta, the Netherlands) 18 Geomorphology and internal architecture of the ancestral Burdekin River across the Great Barrier Reef Shelf, NE Australia 19 Quaternary alluvial stratigraphic development in a desert setting: a case study from the Luni Riverbasin, Thar Desert of western India 20 The Middle Valley of the Tiber River, central Italy: Plio-Pleistocene fluvial and coastal sedimentation, extensional tectonics and volcanism Pre-Quaternary Fluvial Systems 21 Transport modes and grain-size patterns in fluvial basins 22 Gulf of Mexico basin depositional record of Cainozoic North American drainage basin evolution 23 Fluvial-estuarine transitions in fluvial-dominated successions: examples from the Lower Pennsylvanian of the Central Appalachina Basin 24 Palaeogeography and fluvial to estuarine architecture of the Dakota Formation (Cretaceous, Albian), eastern Nebraska, USA 25 Improved understanding of fluvial architecture using three-dimensional geological models: a case study of Westphalian A Silkstone Rock, Pennine Basin, UK 26 Changing alluvial style in response to changing accommodation rate in a proximal foreland basin setting: Upper Cretaceous Dunvegan Formation, NE British Columbia, Canada 27 A new evaluation of fining-upward sequences in a mud-rock dominated succession of the Lower Old Red Sandstone of South Wales, Uk 28 Reservoir scale sequence stratigraphy for hydrocarbon production and development: Tarbat-Ipundu, SW Queensland, Australia 29 Recognition of a floodplain within braid delta deposits of the Oligocene Minato Formation, NE Japan: fine deposits correlated with transgression