Fluvial Sedimentology VI

Understanding of rivers and their sediments, both as modern systems and asancient counterparts in the geological record, has progressed steadily butmarkedly over the past several decades, with contributions by practitioners indivers fields of geosciences and engineering.

This book contains 31 papers, withauthors from 13 countries, who participated in the Sixth InternationalConference on Fluvial Sedimentology held in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1977.True to the nature of these quadrennial conferences, the papers in this bookdiscuss a broad range of fluvial subjects that include the character of bedforms