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Channel Processes, Evolution, and History

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Geomorphology of Desert Environments

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The development of river channels and related fluvial landforms has probably been studied more than any other aspect of geomorphology in arid and semi-arid areas. This is due largely to the originality, forcefulness, and intellectual background of American geomorphologists developed during and sustained long after the exploration of the American West. The strong sense of field observation and experiment coupled with a deep historical perspective, both derived from a geological training, led to some of the most formative contributions to the subject. So much so perhaps that, despite the major endeavours by Europeans in denudation chronology, in climatic and glacial geomorphology, and later in hillslope and channel geomorphology, the conceptual basis of the subject at the end of the 20th century still bears a heavy imprint from the American source. In the Old World, only the Israelis, under A. Schick, have been able to maintain such a strong contribution to desert fluvial geomorphology.

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Thornes, J.B. (1994). Channel Processes, Evolution, and History. In: Abrahams, A.D., Parsons, A.J. (eds) Geomorphology of Desert Environments. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8254-4_12

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