Principles of Alluvial Fan Morphology

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the alluvial fan phenomena, including all terminology, morphology, sedimentology, controlling factors, processes and the human impact. <div></div><div>It combines the knowledge dispersed widely in existing literature with regional case studies, color figures and photographs. The chapters provide a useful basis to understand alluvial fans and a selection of papers attached to each chapter offers additional, more focused reading. </div><div></div><div>This volume is aimed at engineers, planners and especially students in earth sciences. </div><div></div>