We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 April 2020
This chapter examines the characteristics and dynamics of river floodplains. The view of the floodplain as an integral part of the river system is developed, including the role of overbank flows and lateral movement of channels across floodplains in floodplain dynamics. Major depositional mechanisms on floodplains, including lateral accretion and vertical accretion, are reviewed along with erosional processes that can affect certain types of floodplains, resulting in localized scour or catastrophic stripping, in relation to distinct planform types. Characteristic sedimentological assemblages are introduced in relation to distinct planform types, including meandering, braided, wandering gravel-bed, and anastomosing rivers. Three-dimensional alluvial architecture of floodplains is highlighted and examples provided of how this architecture can be used to interpret floodplain alluviation history and changes in the depositional dynamics of river/floodplain systems over time. The chapter also examines the classification of floodplain types in relation to fluvial energy regimes and the factors controlling spatial variations in floodplain extent and volume.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
