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Sediments
Authors: Hrissanthou, Vlassios
Reviewer: Giannopoulos, Panagiotis
Subject: ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY > >
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Abstract:
The term “sediments” is encountered many times in the previous chapters, because it is immediately connected with the scientific area of river hydraulics. There is even an interdependence relation between flow and geomorphology of a river bed, while an interaction between sediments and hydraulic structures in rivers and torrents exists. Therefore, in the fifth chapter, basic terms of sediments are given, and bed load and suspended load sediments in rivers are studied separately. The suspended load sediments in a river originate mainly from the soil erosion of the corresponding basin. For this reason, the sediments transported in basins are studied separately. Additionally, the phenomenon of reservoir sedimentation is described. Finally, sediments are considered as biotopes, in which bacteria, fungi, algae, benthic organisms, weeds and high plants are grown, while fishes also live.
Linguistic Editors: Papadopoulou, Theodora
Technical Editors: Kokkos, Nikolaos
Graphic Editors: Kokkos, Nikolaos
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 2015
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License: Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/5438
Bibliographic Reference: Hrissanthou, V. (2015). Sediments [Chapter]. In Hrissanthou, V. 2015. River Engineering: River Hydraulics and Hydraulic Structures [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/5438
Language: Greek
Is Part of: River Engineering: River Hydraulics and Hydraulic Structures
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions