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Geography & Environment Publications
Laboratory and Experimental Geomorphology
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2013
Volume
1
Issue
Chapter 17
Journal
Treatise on Geomorphology
First Page
325
Last Page
348
URL with Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00017-8
Abstract
Experimental research has played an integral role in the development of foundational knowledge on which the physical sciences and engineering are based. Motivated by the control, precision, and reproducibility that it affords, as well as by its ability to adapt to the changing needs of the discipline, geomorphologists now embrace the utility of laboratory-based inquiry. The formative years for the use of hydraulic flumes, river modeling flumes, and wind tunnels are reviewed in this article, as these apparatuses and their appurtenant equipment provide unrivalled opportunities for education and research, commonly producing transformative results that have markedly improved the understanding of Earth surface processes. Laboratory-based geomorphology is entirely complementary to field- and numerical-based approaches.
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