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1991 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Theory of River Action
Author : Professor Dr. Adrian E. Scheidegger
Published in: Theoretical Geomorphology
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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On the land areas of the world, rivers are undoubtedly some of the most important geomorphological agents. Rivers act geomorphologically in fundamentally two fashions: first by interaction with their bed, i.e., downwards (this type of action is usually referred to as river bed process) and second, by interaction with their banks (sideways erosion). It is the purpose of this chapter (4) to present the theories of these processes.