Flood-related contaminant (As, Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn) remobilisation, dispersal and storage in the Río Guadiamar was investigated following the 1998 Aznalcóllar tailings dam failure, along with records of floodplain contaminant ...

Valley floor geomorphology, sedimentology and radiocarbon dating have been used to reconstruct variations in flooding during the Holocene at six sites within the upper Severn, Teifi and Dee catchments in Wales, UK. ...

The availability of airborne LiDAR data provides a new opportunity to overcome some of the problems associated with traditional, field-based, geomorphological mapping such as restrictions on access and constraints of time ...

The European Union Water Framework Directive represents a new, holistic approach to safeguarding water quality and improving aquatic ecosystems. The challenges faced by managers of multinational river basins are highlighted ...

The number, form and origin of a stepped sequence of sub-horizontal surfaces in north Ceredigion, U.K., has been the subject of continuing controversy over nearly two centuries of investigation. Renewed impetus to re-examine ...

The proposed distinction between meandering and braided river channel patterns, on the basis of bankfull specific stream power and bed material size, is analysed and rejected. Only by using regime-based estimates of channel ...

The River Vişeu catchment in Maramureş County, northwestern Romania, has a long history of base and precious metal mining. Between 1994 and 2003 waste from mining activity at Baia Borşa was stored in the Novaţ-Roşu tailings ...

There is an increasing trend in the Earth sciences towards the integration of many subdisciplines. The sedimentary basin, is a fundamental focal point of many studies, which as a consequence often neglects the complimentary ...

The solid state partitioning of metals and As in river channel sediments has been investigated along an 828 km study reach comprising the rivers Lapu , Some and Tisa, using a 4-stage sequential extraction procedure (SEP) ...