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HYD 252 Hillslope Geomorphology and Sediment Budgets

WEEK 6

Lecture 10: Sediment Budgets- Large Basins

    Outline:
      Gaging station sediment flux measurements
        Standard methods
        Classical results
        Sources of error
      Sediment yield studies at the basin-scale and global scale
        Langbein-Schumm rule
        Milliman and Mead 1983 study
        Multivariate analyses of sediment yield
        Factors affecting the distribution of sediment yield

    Course reading:
      Milliman, J. D. and Syvitsky, J.P.M. 1992. Geomorphic/tectonic control of seidment discharge to the ocean: the importance of small mountainous rivers. Journal of Geology 100:525-544.

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Lecture 11: Climate Impacts on Basins

    Outline:
      Climate Components
      Climate history at multiple time scales
      Climate-basin interactions
        Numerical approaches to coupled hydroclimatology and geomorphology
        Analytical and simple numerical approaches based on lumped geomorphic models
        Sequence-stratigraphy conceptual models
        Paleoenvironmental reconstruction
          Terraces and cut-bank assessment
          Glacial-interglacial cycles
          changes in base level

    Course reading:
      Blum M. D., Tornqvist, T. E. 2000. Fluvial responses to climate and sea-level change: a review and look forward. Sedimentology 47: 2-48.

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