Annotated Definitions of Selected Geomorphic Terms and Related Terms of Hydrology, Sedimentology, Soil Science and Ecology

摘要

Terminology used in fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, sedimentology, soil science, climatology, and ecology is often inconsistent among the disciplines and within a discipline. The terms defined and described herein were compiled to: 1. recognize the overlapping needs of fluvial geomorphologists and hydrologists and the related perspectives of sedimentologists, soil scientists, climatologists, and ecologists; 2. describe the earth-surface processes that result in landforms or hydrologic events that affect each of the disciplines; 3. extend many of the definitions and provide explanations of how landforms and the landscape change in response to the processes that act upon them; 4. provide different definitions for terms that are used differently by different disciplines; and 5. include specialty terms that are commonly used by practitioners of the several disciplines but are rarely if ever defined in most glossaries or dictionaries, or are inconsistently defined.