Distinctiveness and Diversity of Arid Zone River Systems

Arid Zone Geomorphology: Process, Form and Change in Drylands

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 269-300

  Tooth, Stephen ^a   Nanson, Gerald C ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arid to semi arid island of Crete ephemeral and intermittent, high gradient bedrock, boulderbed or cobble bed rivers; Arid zone river systems distinctiveness and diversity; Channel vegetation interactions; Climate, one factor influencing dryland river characteristics, mediated or overridden influencing factors; Dryland river diversity assessing dryland river diversity; Higher energy dryland rivers the Mediterranean region; Mediterranean, southern African and Australian dryland fluvial environments; Mixed bedrock alluvial rivers on South African highveld; River systems, integrated product of environmental settings climatic, tectonic, structural, lithological and vegetative factors; Typical 'textbook' characteristics of dryland fluvial landscapes, valley and river characteristics

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; LITHOLOGY; STREAM FLOW;

ALLUVIAL RIVER; CHANNEL VEGETATION; DRYLAND; DRYLAND RIVERS; HIGH GRADIENT; INTEGRATED PRODUCTS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; RIVER SYSTEMS;

RIVERS;

EID: 84876502978     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470710777.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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