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Morphometry of drainage basins /

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The book describes the drainage basin as a system unit resulting from the interaction between runoff and topography - a lengthy process of evolution that occurs according to well-defined laws. It aims not to quantify the agents which created the present forms, but to analyse the forms themselves in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zăvoianu, Ion
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Bucharest, Romania : Elsevier ; Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, 1985.
Edition:2nd rev. ed.
Series:Developments in water science ; 20.
Subjects:
Watersheds.
Bassins hydrographiques.
drainage basins.
watersheds (drainage divides)
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Limnology.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Hydrology.
Watersheds
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Morphometry of Drainage Basins; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; List of main symbols employed; Brief history; Chapter I. The drainage basin as a system unit; Chapter II. Formation of channel networks; Chapter III. Systems of stream classification; Chapter IV. Drainage basin area; Chapter V. Perimeter of drainage basins; Chapter VI. Basin shape; Chapter VII. River length; Chapter VIII. Stream and drainage densities; Chapter IX. Vertical distances; Chapter X. Slope; Chapter XI. Hypsometric curves and longitudinal stream profiles.