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Hillslopes occupy most the landscape. Studies of process mechanisms
and rates have become sufficiently numerous to allow a systematic
study of slopes. Only by making a synthesis of quantitative process
studies and relating them to the development of slope forms can the
shape of the landscape be understood and the separate effects of
lithology and climate assessed. In the introductory part of this
book, the choice of appropriate system and scale is discussed, and
models for uplift and erosion evaluated. Attention is thus focused
on the dynamic equilibrium of the slope profile and its erosional
development over time. Part I then examines the forces encouraging
hillslope movement and the resistances opposing movement. Part 2
considers processes of rock instability, soil instability, wash,
solution and soil creep. Each is discussed in terms of its
mechanism and rate of operation, and the slope provides it
produces. Part 3 outlines how this systematic approach may be
applied to areas of different climate and the extent to which there
is an assemblage of processes characteristic of each area. In part
4, the process evidence and models are combined into theoretical
sequences of slope profile development, and the effect of contour
curvature in modifying these profiles on spurts and in hollows is
examined.
A complete guide to the behavior of water on graded land Hillslope
Hydrology provides a comprehensive introduction to the behavior of
water on a slope. Describing the fates of precipitation, the
mechanics of runoff, and the calculations involved in assessment,
this book clarifies the complex interplay of soils, sediment,
subsurface flow, overland flow, saturation, erosion, and more. An
ideal resource for graduate students of Earth science,
environmental science, civil engineering, architecture, landscape
management, and related fields, this informative guide provides the
essential information needed to work effectively with graded land
or predict outcomes of precipitation.
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