Understanding of rivers and their sediments, both as modern systemsand as ancient counterparts in the geological record, hasprogressed steadily but markedly over the past several decades,with contributions by practitioners in diverse fields ofgeosciences and engineering. This book contains 31 papers, withauthors from 13 countries, who participated in the SixthInternational Conference on Fluvial Sedimentology held in CapeTown, South Africa, in 1977. True to the nature of thesequadrennial conferences, the papers in this book discuss a broadrange of fluvial subjects that include the character of bedformsand sediment transport in river channels, morphological andsedimentological features of modern fluvial environments, modernand ancient avulsions, internal and external controls on thebehaviour of river systems, and the facies and architecturalorganization of alluvial deposits.* * A specialist volume detailing the latest advances in fluvialsedimentology.* Authorship includes the leaders in the field.If you are a member of the International Association ofSedimentologists, for purchasing details, please see:iasnet.org/publications/details.asp?code=SP28

1. Sediment Transport And Bedforms:.Turbulent Sand Suspension Over Dunes.Dune Growth, Decay And Migration Rates During A Large-MagnitudeFlood At A Sand And Mixed Sand-Gravel Bed In The Dutch Rhine RiverSystem.Bedforms In The Middle Reaches Of The Tay Estuary, Scotland.Flow Structure And Transport Of Sand-Grade Suspended SedimentAround An Evolving Braid Bar, Jamuna River, Bangladesh.2. Modern Fluvial Environments:.Effective Discharge For Overbank Sedimentation On An EmbankedFloodplain Along The River Rhine, The Netherlands.RADARSAT Imaging Of The 1997 Czech Republic Flood.The Role Of Overbank Flow In Governing The Form Of AnAnabranching River: The Fitzroy River, Northwestern Australia.Downstream Changes In Floodplain Character On The NorthernPlains Of Arid Central Australia.Confined Meandering River Eddy Accretions: Sedimentology,Channel Geometry And Depositional Processes.The Influence Of Flooding On The Erodability Of CohesiveSediments Along The Sabie River, South Africa.Erosion Of Sediments Between Groynes In The Waal River Due ToNavigation Traffic.The Geochemical And Mineralogical Record Of The Impact OfHistorical Mining Within Estuarine Sediments From The Upper ReachesOf The Fal Estuary, Cornwall, UK.3. Avulsion: Modern And Ancient:.Causes Of Avulsion: An Overview.Avulsion And Crevassing In The Sandy, Braided Niobrara River:Complex Response To Base-Level Rise And Aggradation.Contrasting Styles Of Holocene Avulsion, Texas Gulf CoastalPlain USA.Pemiscot Bayou, A Large Distributary Of The Mississippi RiverAnd Possible Failed Avulsion.Avulsion, River Metamorphosis, And Reworking By UnderfitStreams: A Modern Example From The Brahamputra River In BangladeshAnd A Possible Ancient Example In The Spanish Pyrenees.Holocene Avulsion History Of The Lower Saskatchewan FluvialSystem, Cumberland Marshes, Saskatchewan-Manitoba.Recognizing Avulsion Deposits In The Ancient StratigraphicRecord.4. Controls On River Systems And AlluvialSuccessions:.The Use Of Models In The Interpretation Of The Effects Of BaseLevel Change On Alluvial Architecture.Subsidence Rates And Fluvial Architecture Of Rift-RelatedPermian And Triassic Alluvial Sediments Of The SE Iberian Ranges,Eastern Spain.Drainage Evolution In Active Mountain Belts: ExtrapolationBackwards From Present-Day Himalayan River Patterns.Controls On The Sedimentology Of November 1996 JokulhlaupDeposits, Skeioarasandur, Iceland.5. Alluvial Facies And Architecture:.The Influence Of Aggradation Rate On Braided AlluvialArchitecture: Field Study And Physical Scale Modelling Of TheAshburton River Gravels, Canterbury Plains, New Zealand.Sedimentary Facies From GPR Surveys Of The Modern, UpperBurdekin River Of North Queensland, Australia: Consequences OfExtreme Discharge Fluctuations.Meander Bend Reconstruction From An Upper MississippianFine-Grained Muddy Point Bar At Possum Hollow, West Virginia.Palaeohydrological Parameters Of A Proterozoic Braided FluvialSystem Compared With A Phanerozoic Example.Sand And Mud-Dominated Alluvial Fan Deposits Of The Miocene SetoPorcelain Clay Formation, Japan.Sedimentology Of The Gwembe Coal Formation (Permian), LowerKaroo Group, Mid-Zambezi Valley, Southern Zambia.Sedimentology Of The Section Peak Formation (Jurassic), NorthernVictoria Land, Antartica.Reconstruction Of Fluvial Bars From The Proterozoic MancheralQuartzite, Pranhita-Godavari Valley, India