The Zambezi River

Large Rivers: Geomorphology and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 311-332

  Moore, Andy E ^a   Woody Cotterill, Fenton P D ^b   Main, Mike P L ^c   Williams, Hugh B ^c  

^a AMPAL (Pty) Ltd   (Botswana)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c NONE   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Densely vegetated floodplains; Ephemeral modern flow regime; Floodplains and dambos spatial dominance; Fossil lacustrine deposits and landforms; Initiation and subsequent geomorphic evolution; Low lying hinterland and low lying ridges; Major headwater tributaries; Sediments and subordinate Precambrian crystalline basement rocks; Senile endoreic drainage system; Subsidiary coastal drainage system

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DRAINAGE;

DRAINAGE SYSTEMS; FLOOD-PLAINS; FLOW REGIMES; GEOMORPHIC EVOLUTION; HEAD WATERS; LACUSTRINE DEPOSITS; LOW-LYING HINTERLAND AND LOW-LYING RIDGES; PRECAMBRIAN;

FLOODS;

EID: 84889446879     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470723722.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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