Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Figure credits
- PART 1 Introduction
- PART 2 Production of sediment at the Earth's surface
- PART 3 Fundamentals of fluid flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
- 5 Unidirectional turbulent water flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
- 6 Air flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
- 7 Multidirectional water flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
- 8 Movement of sediment by gravity
- 9 Generation and movement of volcaniclastic sediment
- 10 Ice flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
- 11 Biogenic and chemogenic depositional structures
- 12 Post-depositional deformation of soft sediment
- PART 4 Environments of erosion and deposition
- PART 5 Sediment into rock: diagenesis
- PART 6 Long-term, large-scale processes: mountains and sedimentary basins
- References
- Appendix: Methods of study of Earth surface processes, landforms, and sediments
- Index
- Plate section
8 - Movement of sediment by gravity
from PART 3 - Fundamentals of fluid flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Figure credits
- PART 1 Introduction
- PART 2 Production of sediment at the Earth's surface
- PART 3 Fundamentals of fluid flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
- 5 Unidirectional turbulent water flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
- 6 Air flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
- 7 Multidirectional water flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
- 8 Movement of sediment by gravity
- 9 Generation and movement of volcaniclastic sediment
- 10 Ice flow, sediment transport, erosion, and deposition
- 11 Biogenic and chemogenic depositional structures
- 12 Post-depositional deformation of soft sediment
- PART 4 Environments of erosion and deposition
- PART 5 Sediment into rock: diagenesis
- PART 6 Long-term, large-scale processes: mountains and sedimentary basins
- References
- Appendix: Methods of study of Earth surface processes, landforms, and sediments
- Index
- Plate section
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- Earth Surface Processes, Landforms and Sediment Deposits , pp. 255 - 277Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2008