Hillslope Materials and Processes
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 November 1993
- ISBN 9780198741831
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages466 pages
- Size 246x189x26 mm
- Weight 898 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones, line figures, and tables 0
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Short description:
The book is intended for students who approach the study of hillslopes, and the rocks and soils on which they develop, from such traditional disciplines as geomorphology, geology, engineering, and soil science, and attempts to integrate the relevant subject matter from these disciplines from the point of view of an earth scientist.
MoreLong description:
This second edition, like its predecessor, provides students with an integrated review of the basic knowledge and methods which form the foundation for advanced study. It also brings them information on the latest contributions to developments in the understanding of hillslopes.
Since publication of the first edition, not only has knowledge advanced but an interdisciplinary approach to much of the research has become increasingly common and productive. These developments are reflected in this book by the threefold expansion of the bibliography and by the bringing together of the approaches and scientific knowledge from the contributing disciplines of geology, civil engineering, hydrology, soil science, ecology, and geomorphology to produce a comprehensive text which makes possible an integrated understanding of hillslopes.
Approximately seventy per cent of the text is new, with many new figures and plates, which has enabled Professor Selby to provide a more comprehensive introduction than in the first edition to the nature of chemical bonding, the properties of mineral particles and fabrics of weak rock, rheology of rock and soil, hillslope hydrology, hillslope stratigraphy, and landslide hazard investigation.
`An excellent, comprehensive book.'
Dr R.J. Allison, University of Durham
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Bonds
Particles and fabrics of soil and weak sediments
Stress, strain, and rheology of materials
Strength of earth materials
Properties of rock masses
Properties of soils
Weathering processes
Landforms from weathering, soils, and duricrusts
Hillslope stratigraphy and form
Water in soils and hillslope hydrology
Erosion of hillslopes by raindrops and flowing water
Mass wasting of soils
Flow failures on hillslopes
Rock slope processes
Models and hillslope development
Landslide hazards: avoidance and protection
Magnitudes and frequencies of erosional events
Rates of denudation and their implications
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