Publication Date : 2010-01-01
Author : Van, T. P. D.
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Disaster Management Theme :
Disaster Type : Flood
Document Type : Research Paper
Languange : en
Link : https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/160907/
Abstact :
Anabranching fluvial networks recently have become the focus of attention from environmental specialists, especially in the hydraulic field. Anabranching networks can be found in different physical environments; however, the hydraulic and geomorphological natures of such river networks are still not well known leading to on-going discussions on the definition and nature of the networks. Even though, alluvial anabranching networks generally have common features like vegetated islands, low water surface slope and stabl+I63e channel planform, bedrock-confined anabranching networks also have their own characteristics inherited from the geological and structural controls imposed on the single channels that compose the network complex.