… acclaimed textbook brings the subject of sedimentation and erosion completely up-to-date. …
Procedure, sediment transport by size fractions, sediment transport of sediment mixtures, the …

… annual temperature of 50 F), sediment mass having been converted to erosion rates by
assuming I ton of sediment to be equivalent to 4·34 X 10--'7 ft/yr: … The 14 km.yielded every year by …

… 3 of sediment. About 97% of this vast amount of soil has been redeposited on the plain rather
than transported to the oceans. The effect of the sediment on … Up to 5·6 m of sediment has …

… erosion (ie sheet and gully erosion) constitutes the dominant sediment source, most of the
erosion … and a proportion of the mobilized sediment will be deposited during transport through …

… erosion, we have examined both long-term and short-term data on rates of sediment …
volumes of sedimentary rock require a mean continental erosion rate on the order of 16 m per …

… in flood plains is represented by 283 ha, 0.9 m thick (18 x 10-2hm3/km2), these calculations
indicate that about 14 percent of the estimated eroded sediment is stored in flood plains. …

… have lost 25 % of its capacity during the first 14 years of impounding. Table 1 provides a
compilation of the reservoir sedimentation rates estimated by of various investigators. Based on …

… We measured the mean rate of bed-load transport (<js) by photographing at regular
intervals the foreset bedding formed by the sediment transported above the centre part of the …

… a survey of sediment in !arge culverts draining new developments. Of 14 drains surveyedin
… cross-sectional area of the culvert occupied by sediment. Furthermore, at two of these three, …