Recent Developments On Debris Flows

Methods and results of research in solid load transport and river bed dynamics are presented by international authors.The authors come from earth science and engineering institutions and both practical and theoretical aspects of mountain river research are addressed. The book concentrates on hydrological and geomorphological processes in mountain rivers with the majority of the contributions focusing on the Alps.

Examples include models of the genesis of carbonaceous sediments, with their various laminated to bioturbated lithotypes, and numerical organic carbon prediction. A change in the flux of one component is capable of relatively diluting or concentrating theother two components, which can be expressed in the characteristic ratio of organic carbon to carbonate in the resulting sediment.

This book addresses the important issue of mass-flow sedimentation modelling in the framework of basin-fill dynamics and sequence stratigraphy.

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After an introduction to the history and architecture of Geo-Information Systems this book examines spatial representations in 2D and 3D space regarding their suitability in 3D-GISs. This book presents a model for the integration of spatial information for 3D Geo-Information Systems (3D-GISs).This, however, leads to conceptual difficulties because of the totally different paradigms. A three-level notion of space serves as a basis of a model for the integration of spatial information.

Topics include surface weathering, fluvial processes, environmental pollution, oceanography and paleoceanography, sedimentary mineral diagenesis and radiometric dating, thus bridging the gap between processes acting on the Earth today and the geological record.Extensive use is made of carefully selected case studies, both pioneering and state-of-the-art.

The book gives a general overview of recent approaches to debris flows.

Phase Equilibria in Metamorphic Rocks Part A introduces some of the broader aspects of mineral solid solutions, Part B discusses the theoretical basis of geothermometry and geobarometry, and Part C deals with phase diagrams.

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This books aims to provide an introduction to various techniques to determine the pressure and temperature conditions of formation of metamorphic rocks.