10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ALLUVIAL CONE»
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1
Some principles of accelerated stream and valley sedimentation
ALLUVIAL-FAN, OR ALLUVIAL-CONE, ASSOCIATION In addition to the
characteristic positions of the various types of deposits, as listed above, there are
three other common groupings or associations that produce characteristic
surface forms, ...
Stafford Coleman Happ, Gordon Rittenhouse, Gilbert Colfax Dobson, 1940
2
CRC Dictionary of Agricultural Sciences
See also soil (alluvial soil). alluvial community. a community that develops and is
sustained by periodic inundation and deposition of alluvial deposits (e.g., flood
plain communities, river deltas). alluvial cone. a delta shaped feature of a ...
3
Long Continental Records from Lake Baikal
This alluvial cone probably formed during the late Zyryanian. The washing out of
the cone started after the rise in the lake level, obviously in the Kargin- ian, and
continued until the top of the spillway became stable and its height reached the ...
4
Natural Arsenic in Groundwater: Proceedings of the ...
In the recent years, chemistry of groundwater of the shallow aquifers within
selected areas of the alluvial cone of the river Río Dulce of Santiago del Estero
province (Bejarano & Nordberg 2003, Claesson & Fagerberg 2003, Bundschuh
et al.
J. Bundschuh, P. Bhattacharya, D. Chandrasekharam, 2004
5
Geology of the Bristow Quadrangle, Creek County, Oklahoma: ...
... of the Humboldt Lake Range, 500 feet above the bottom of Rochester Canyon.
They prove how deeply the alluvial cones have been dissected since they were
built. The thickness of the alluvial-cone detritus is unknown but exceeds 500 feet.
An alluvial cone is an unstable sediment accumulation with a triangular shape.
The apex is located at a point where a sharp decrease in river slope forces the
deposit of sediment, a decrease in channel capacity and hence lateral overflow
and ...
Giuseppe Rossi, Nilgun B. Harmanciogammalu, V. Yevjevich, 1994
7
Introduction to Physical Geography
An alluvial cone is a type of alluvial fan but one in which the slope angles are
steeper (150 inclination) and the deposited material is generally coarser and
thicker having been transported by ephemeral or short lived torrents, emerging
from a ...
8
A Geologic Reconnaissance of the Inyo Range: And the Eastern ...
At an altitude of 6,100 feet a well-defined fault scarp crosses the alluvial cone of
George Creek. It faces east, is 20 feet high, and trends N. 25° W. Along its -
northward continuation a granite spur, which rises here from the alluvium, clearly
...
Adolph Knopf, Edwin Kirk, 1918
9
The Geology and Ore Deposits of Ely, Nevada
A marked diminution in stream volume would presumably have resulted in the
formation of a new alluvial cone resting on the flood plain previously formed. If
such a cone was formed within this section of the valley it has since been
destroyed.
10
U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
The l>ench is an almost perfectly preserved alluvial cone deposited by the creek
at mile 350.3. The alluvial gravels of the bench consist almost entirely of Birch
Creek schist. They rest on a thin layer of blue-gray gravel deposited by the
Nenana ...
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