Field surveys in the 724-km Queets river basin on the west slope of the Olympic Mountains in NW Washington reveal basin-wide patterns of distinctive wood debris (WD) accumulations that arise from different mechanisms of WD recruitment, hydraulic geometry, and physical characteristics of WD. Individual pieces of WD in an accumulation or jam can be separated into key, racked, and loose members. T...

There is a need to automate terrain feature mapping so that to make the process more objective and less time consuming by using proper feature extraction techniques. The objective of this study was the use of object-oriented image analysis methods for the automatic extraction of alluvial fan terrain units. The study area was located in the Death Valley, Nevada, USA. The data used included an AS...

The Late Permian Betts Creek Beds form a succession of coal-bearing alluvial-coastal plain sediments in a basin marginal setting within the northeastern Galilee Basin, Queensland, Australia. The unit is ~ 50–60 m in thickness at Porcupine Creek National Park where outcrop is laterally continuous for several kilometers. Eight facies have been identified within the formation and can be grouped in...

This proposal sets out the justification, scope and terms of reference for conducting a 16-month pilot study of (1) the dynamics of geomorphic change in English lowland alluvial systems, focusing on the Upper Thames Valley, and (2) the implication of such change for paleoenvironmental reconstruction, preservation and visibility of the archaeological record, and for aggregates exploration. The p...

A drainage basin simulation model is used to interpret the morphometry and historical evolution of Mancos Shale badlands in Utah. High relief slopes in these badlands feature narrow divides and linear profiles due to threshold mass-wasting. Threshold slopes become longer in proportion to erosion rate, implying lower drainage density and higher relief. By contrast, in slowly eroding areas of low...

Airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data were acquired over the coastal city of Christchurch, New Zealand, prior to and throughout the 2010 to 2011 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence. Differencing of preand post-earthquake LiDAR data reveals land surface and waterway deformation due to seismic shaking and tectonic displacements above blind faults. Shaking caused floodplain subsidence in ex...

Collapse sinkholes are common in areas where gypsum strata underlie rock that is incompetent to bridge the cavities created by groundwater dissolution of gypsum. On floodplains these can be obscured due fill overbank deposits, and channels tend migrate towards larger enclosed depressions. This study utilises GIS analyse influence exerted small collapse on channel dynamics alluvial River Ure, UK...

We documented riparian primary succession on an expansive floodplain (Kol River, Kamchatka, Russian Federation) that receives large nitrogen subsidies from spawning Pacific salmon. As is typical of primary succession, new alluvial deposits in the lower Kol floodplain were nitrogen poor (200 kg persulfate N/ha to 10 cm soil depth); however, nitrogen accumulated rapidly, and soils contained 1600 ...

Gently sloping surfaces for settlement are scarce in high mountains ranges and they are commonly related to distal parts of alluvial fans where floods hazards can be expected. To understanding the influence of external factors, such as climatic variability and land uses, on the alluvial fan accretion and flooding processes, sedimentology and pollen analysis from local site provide valuable data...