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American Meteorological Society (website supported by the National Science Foundation): Water in the Earth System Learning Files.
Jeff Crabaugh (University of Wyoming), The Science Education Resource Center (SERC), Carleton College: Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations: Using Images, Animations, and Models Effectively, River Systems: Process and Form. This site provides access to a number of visualizations and supporting material that can be used effectively to teach students about physical processes acting in rivers and their floodplains. Visualizations include simple animations, visual output from numerical models, as well as numerous static illustrations and photos.
EarthComm (developed by the American Geological Institute (AGI) and supported by the National Science Foundation and donors of the American Geological Institute Foundation). Actually a link directory. Go to: Bedrock Geology, and River Systems.
Environment Agency, UK: River habitats classification. This indicator shows the extent to which river channels are natural or have been modified. Go to: River habitats classification - background and data. The River Habitats Classification enables organisations to set targets for habitat quality and to measure the impact (both positive and negative) of river channel management.
! H.J. Falcon-Lang et al. (2001): Fire-prone plant communities and palaeoclimate of a Late Cretaceous fluvial to estuarine environment, Pecínov quarry, Czech Republic. PDF file, Geol. Mag., 138: 563-576.
Mark Francek (Central Michigan University), The Science Education Resource Center (SERC), Carleton College: Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations: Using Images, Animations, and Models Effectively, Processes of River Erosion, Transport, and Deposition. Find animations showing processes of river erosion, transport and deposition.
Thomas R. Holtz, Department of Geology, University of Maryland: Historical Geology - The History of Earth and Life. Lecture notes. Go to: Terrestrial Sedimentary Environments, or Fluvial & Deltaic Environments; Walther's Law.
Carlos Jaramillo et al. (2010): The origin of the modern Amazon rainforest: implications of the palynological and palaeobotanical record. PDF file, Amazonia, Landscape and Species Evolution: A Look into the Past, 1st edition. Edited by C. Hoorn and F.P. Wesselingh.
Land & Water Australia, Canberra: River Landscapes. Including interactive 3-D diagrams to explore how rivers and riparian areas function, in scientific, managerial and social terms.
Peter Lourie, Matrix Learning Inc.: RiverResource. At RiverResource you won't find the facts, but rather the connections to facts, books, and people studying rivers. Go To: River System (by Hamblin 1995). Major characteristics of a river system.
Per Michaelsen (2002): Mass extinction of peat-forming plants and the effect on fluvial styles across the Permian-Triassic boundary, northern Bowen Basin, Australia. PDF file, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 179: 173-188. Models of fluvial styles in fig. 7 (on PDF page 10).
! Robert J. Naiman and Henri Décamps (1997): THE ECOLOGY OF INTERFACES: Riparian Zones. PDF file, Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst., 28: 621-658.
Michael Pidwirny, Department of Geography, Okanagan University College, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada: FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. The main purpose of Physical Geography is to explain the spatial characteristics of the various natural phenomena that exist in Earth's hydrosphere, biosphere, atmosphere, and lithosphere. Go to: Introduction to the Hydrosphere.
Geoffrey C. Poole (2002): Fluvial landscape ecology: addressing uniqueness within the river discontinuum. PDF file, Freshwater Biology, 47: 641-660.
P David Polly, Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN:
Historical Geology. Life through time.
Lecture notes. Topics are paleontology, geologic time, biological evolution,
plate tectonics, ancient environments, and climate change,
principles of interpreting earth history from geological data, etc. Go to:
Lecture 7:
Lakes, Rivers, Wind and Ice: Deposition on Land , and
Lecture 8:
Deltas, shores, and reefs: Deposition at Sea .
Lecture slides (PDF files).
F. Ricardi-Branco et al. (2009): Plant Accumulations Along the Itanhaem River Basin, Southern Coast of Sao Paulo State, Brazil. PDF file, Palaios, 24: 416-424. See also here.
! Dave Rubin, Western Region Coastal & Marine Geology, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Menlo Park, CA: The USGS bedform sedimentology site. QuickTime and MPEG movies of bedforms and cross-bedding, and bedform simulation software. From this page you can access: Images of bedforms and crossbedding, and "How to identify low-dimensional deterministic systems (chaos) in time series or spatial patterns". Go to: Cross-Bedding, Bedforms, and Paleocurrents. Excellent!
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) Open Courseware.
Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT.
No registration required. Go to:
John Southard: Special Topics in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences:
The Environment
of the Earth´s Surface. PDF files. The course combines aspects of geology, climatology,
hydrology, and soil science to present a coherent introduction to the surface of the
Earth. Go to:
Rivers
(PDF file).
! David L. Strayer and Stuart E. G. Findlay (2010): Ecology of freshwater shore zones. PDF file, Aquat. Sci., 72: 127-163.
Roger J. Suthren, Institute of Learning and Research Technology, University of Bristol: Mount Hood Stratovolcano, Oregon. Sedimentary environments information.
Roger Suthren, Oxford Brookes University, U.K.: virtual-geology.info. Go to: Online learning in the geosciences, Sedimentology. Online learning materials (actually a link directory) for sedimentology.
UniServity, UK: Oxbow Lake Formation. This Flash slide show renders a detailed five step analysis of oxbow lake formation.
Steve Wagner (paleontological volunteer at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science): Paleocurrents.com: Mainly nice photo galleries of fossil plants. Go to: Castle Rock Fossil Rainforest. Please take notice: THE MEANDERING RIVER.
S.L. Wing (1984):
Relation
of paleovegetation to geometry and cyclicity of some fluvial carbonaceous deposits.
PDF file.
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