Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I The Tropical Environment
- Part II Process geomorphology in the tropics
- 5 Weathering in the tropics
- 6 Slopes: forms and processes
- 7 Rivers in the tropics
- 8 Alluvial valleys
- 9 Large rivers in the tropics
- 10 The tropical coasts
- 11 Deltas in the tropics
- 12 The arid tropics
- 13 Tropical highlands
- 14 Volcanic landforms
- 15 Tropical karst
- 16 Quaternary in the tropics
- Part III Anthropogenic changes
- References
- Index
- Plate section
9 - Large rivers in the tropics
from Part II - Process geomorphology in the tropics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I The Tropical Environment
- Part II Process geomorphology in the tropics
- 5 Weathering in the tropics
- 6 Slopes: forms and processes
- 7 Rivers in the tropics
- 8 Alluvial valleys
- 9 Large rivers in the tropics
- 10 The tropical coasts
- 11 Deltas in the tropics
- 12 The arid tropics
- 13 Tropical highlands
- 14 Volcanic landforms
- 15 Tropical karst
- 16 Quaternary in the tropics
- Part III Anthropogenic changes
- References
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
A huge river is the Padma, just like the sea
Buddhadev Bose, translated from BengaliIntroduction
A number of large rivers drain the tropics, acting as huge conduits for transferring water and sediment to the oceans. These include the Amazon, Orinoco, Magdalena and Paraná in tropical South America; the Nile, Niger, Congo and Zambezi in Africa; and the Indus, Ganga, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy and Mekong in tropical South and Southeast Asia. These rivers play a very important role in tropical geomorphology. We review a selected number of large rivers in this chapter to illustrate their importance.
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- Tropical Geomorphology , pp. 143 - 169Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011