Fundamentals of Fluvial Geomorphology and Channel Processes
you see (form) and why it is there (process). Then you will begin to have some understanding and can
perhaps begin to predict what sort of changes may result if your project alters the flow patterns. Then you
are beginning to think like a geomorphologist. Dr. Einstein (1972) said in the closing comments of his
retirement symposium:
It is in the field where we can find out whether our ideas are applicable, where we
can find out what the various conditions are that we have to deal with, and where
we can also find out what the desired improvements are.
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