Mountain Rivers Revisited

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Water Resources Monograph Series.What are the forms and processes characteristic of mountain rivers and how do we know them? Mountain Rivers Revisited, an expanded and updated version of the earlier volume Mountain Rivers, answers these questions and more. Here is the only comprehensive synthesis of current knowledge about mountain rivers available. While continuing to focus on physical process and form in mountain rivers, the text also addresses the influences of tectonics, climate, and land use on rivers, as well as water chemistry, hyporheic exchange, and riparian and aquatic ecology. With its numerous illustrations and references, hydrologists, geomorphologists, civil and environmental engineers, ecologists, resource planners, and their students will find this book an essential resource.Ellen Wohl received her Ph.D. in geology in 1988 from the University of Arizona. Since then, she has worked primarily on mountain and bedrock rivers in diverse environments.Content: Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–12): Chapter 2 Mountain Drainage Basins (pages 13–102): Chapter 3 Channel Processes (pages 103–228): Chapter 4 Channel Morphology (pages 229–257): Chapter 5 Mountain River Biota (pages 259–293): Chapter 6 Mountain Rivers and Humans (pages 295–346): Chapter 7 Field Data, Experiments, Computers, Brains (pages 349–352):