Geomorphological Fluid Mechanics

InhaltsangabeFundamentals: Methods, Materials and Metaphors.- The Language of Pattern and Form.- Geophysical Aspects of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics.- to Rheology and Application to Geophysics.- Granular Material Theories Revisited.- Hot.- Earth's Surface Morphology and Convection in the Mantle.- Morphological Instabilities in Flows with Cooling, Freezing or Dissolution.- Shallow Lava Theory.- Explosive Volcanic Eruptions.- Cold.- The Dynamics of Snow and Ice Masses.- Response of Italian Glaciers to Climatic Variations.- Asymptotic Theories of Ice Sheets and Ice Shelves.- Aspects of Iceberg Deterioration and Drift.- Snow Avalanches.- Dense Granular Avalanches: Mathematical Description and Experimental Validation.- Dirty.- Patterns of Dirt.- 16 Invitation to Sediment Transport.- Types of Aeolian Sand Dunes and Their Formation.- Dunes and Drumlins.- Estuarine Patterns: An Introduction to Their Morphology and Mechanics.- Longshore Bars and Bragg Resonance.- 21 Debris Flows and Related Phenomena.- Mud Flow- Slow and Fast.