Geological Magazine; May 2006; v. 143; no. 3;
p. 414; DOI: 10.1017/S0016756806262381
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BLUM, M. D., MARRIOTT, S. B. & LECLAIR, S. F. (eds) 2005. Fluvial Sedimentology VII.
Special Publication no. 35 of the International Association of Sedimentologists. ix + 589 pp. Oxford, Malden, Carlton: Blackwell Publishing. Price £75.00 (paperback). ISBN 1 4051 2651 5.
Gary Nichols
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Every four years since 1977 there has been an international conference on fluvial sedimentology, and from each a collection of papers has been produced in a volume, this being the seventh in that series. The meeting itself took place in August 2001, and the process of publishing the volume seems to have been a little longer than most of the previous collections in the series, and it was published just a few months before the eighth international fluvial meeting in the summer of 2005. However, it is a substantial collection, with 29 papers covering a wide range of topics. An interesting development is that the balance of the contributions has shifted towards studies on modern processes and case studies . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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