Abstract: Flooding processes occurring on alluvial fans are considerably different from those occurring along single thread rivers with well defined floodplains. Active erosion, rapid sedimentation, and the uncertainty in flow path ...

Abstract: The Exner equation of sediment continuity is the foundation of river morphodynamics. Generalization of this equation to mixtures of grain sizes has required the introduction of an active layer (i.e., a buffer layer between ...

Abstract: Debris flows occur under water, e.g., in lakes and the ocean, as well as under air. These two types of debris flow have many similarities, but also differ in striking ways. The focus of the research reported here is on the ...

Abstract: Alluvial fans and fan-deltas are of three basic types: those built up primarily by the action of constantly avulsing river and stream channels, those constructed by sheet flows, and those resulting from the successive ...

Abstract: This is the second of two papers about experiments on downstream fining of gravel. Here we briefly summarize the complete series of runs described in the first paper, where the influence of sediment feed rate was evaluated ...

Abstract: We present the results of three laboratory experiments in which longitudinally sorted deposits were formed by feeding poorly sorted sediment at the upstream end of a narrow, 45-m-long channel. The input sediment had a ...

Abstract: The formulation of the companion paper describing the evolution of mean elevation in a radially symmetric alluvial fan is applied to the specific case of the tailings basin of an iron mine. The tailings basin provides a ...