River ice cover not only affects rivers during the winter but can also influence both physical and biological processes throughout the year, including the timing and duration of ecological ...

This report has identified a compelling national need for an integrative river science, a science structured and conducted to develop a process-based predictive understanding of the functions of the ...

Researcher uncovers why most of the records left by ancient rivers preserve commonplace processes. The Torridon sandstone in northwestern Scotland preserves six kilometers of river sediment from ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Rivers are the circulatory system of the continents. They are the conduits for water, ...