Principles of Alluvial Fan Morphology - Bowman, Dan
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the alluvial fan phenomena, including all terminology, morphology, sedimentology, controlling factors, processes and the human impact. It combines the knowledge dispersed widely in existing literature with regional case studies, color figures and photographs. The chapters provide a useful basis to understand alluvial fans and a selection of papers attached to each chapter offers additional, more focused reading. This volume is aimed at engineers, planners and especially students in earth sciences.

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This book offers a comprehensive overview of the alluvial fan phenomena, including all terminology, morphology, sedimentology, controlling factors, processes and the human impact.
It combines the knowledge dispersed widely in existing literature with regional case studies, color figures and photographs. The chapters provide a useful basis to understand alluvial fans and a selection of papers attached to each chapter offers additional, more focused reading.
This volume is aimed at engineers, planners and especially students in earth sciences.
Autorenporträt
Dan Bowman is Professor Emeritus at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel. He got his Ph.D. in Geomorphology at the Hebrew University. His publications include morphology of sandy coasts, nearshore circulation, tectonic morphology and alluvial fans morphology. His main areas of research included the Israeli Mediterranean Coast, the Dead Sea Rift, Italian Coasts and the Tien-Shan Ridge in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia. Prof Bowman taught courses in nearshore circulation, coastal morphology, alluvial fans, tectonic morphology and system approach. In 2019, Springer published his book Principles of alluvial fan morphology.