TY  - Data
T1  - Erosion development of rivers and ponding areas
A1  - Documentation Information Center
DO  - 10.12389/ariddc.02228
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026-09-10
PB  - Arid Land Ecology and Resources Science Data Center
AB  - All forms of surface runoff, both overland flow and channel flow, act upon the weathering crust and produce erosional and depositional landforms. These processes are currently the subject of two scientific disciplines: hydrology and geomorphology. However, although both disciplines study the same phenomena, their perspectives and research methods differ fundamentally.Geomorphology became an independent scientific discipline only relatively recently, approximately seventy years ago, after separating from geology. In doing so, it inherited geology’s predominantly qualitative genetic approach to analysis. In the study of landforms, this approach is based mainly on traces of processes that occurred in the comparatively distant past and have been preserved to the present day.Hydrology is likewise a relatively young science, but it developed under entirely different conditions. It emerged and grew in close connection with engineering hydraulics and hydrometric engineering and adopted from them highly developed methods of field and laboratory measurement. At the same time, hydrology was compelled from the outset to master mathematical methods, which enabled it to become one of the exact natural sciences.Today, hydrology is regarded as one of the sciences within the fields of geography and geophysics that studies contemporary processes occurring in natural water bodies, including oceans, rivers, lakes, and groundwater aquifers. An important branch of hydrology is concerned with the action of flowing water and waves on movable particles forming riverbeds and banks, that is, with channel processes and wave processes, the very area in which hydrology intersects with geomorphology.Unlike geomorphology, hydrology is founded not on qualitative analysis but on quantitative statistical and functional analysis of all phenomena associated with surface-water activity. It is therefore concerned not only with forms such as channels, floodplains, valleys, and lake basins, but also with t
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