目次

1        Definitions and Setting 2        Magnitude and Sourcing 2.1   Fan Sourcing 2.2   Dimensions 2.3   Megafans 3        Slope Gradients 3.1 Slopes and Profiles    3.2 Controlling Factors 4 Fan Morphometry 4.1 Definitions 4.2   Fan Area vs Drainage Area 4.3  Fan Slope vs Drainage Area 5 Drainage 5.1 Fan Zonation 5.2 Fan Spread 5.3  Avulsion 5.4 Compensational Stacking 6 Flows 6.1 Water and  Hyperconcentrated Flows 6.2 Debris Flows 7 Aggradation 8 Fan Entrenchment 8.1    The Switch to Entrenchment   8.2    Controls of Entrenchment 8.3   Erosional Morphology  9 Textural and Facies Characteristics 9.1   Grain Size 9.2   Facies 10    Pedogenic Processes 10.1 Development of Reg Soils  10.2 Calcretisation and Salt Weathering 10.3 Varnish and Soil Rubification 10.4 Desert Pavement 11    The Tectonic Control 11.1 Faulting of alluvial fan 11.2 Displaced fans 11.3 Subsidence and Stacking 11.4 Sinuosity of the mountain front 12    The Climatic Control 12.1 The Effect of Vegetation 12.2 Water/Sediment Discharge Ratio 12.3 The Paraglacial Impact 12.4 Humid and Arid Impacts 13     The Base Level Effect 14     Groundwater 14.1 Compartmentalization  14.2 Contamination, Recharge and Tectonic Effects 14.3 Subsidence 15 Morphology of the Fan Surface 15.1 Fan Terraces 15.2 Surface Roughness and Smoothing 15.3 Geomorphological Data 16 Dating of Alluvial Fans 16.1 Absolute Dating 16.2 Relative Dating 16.3 Rates of Deposition and Erosion 17 The System Approach 17.1 Transitional Unstable Conditions 17.2 Feedbacks 17.3 Controls 17.4 Coupling 18 Natural Hazards 18.1 The Hazards 18.2 Hazard Mapping 18.3 Protective Devices 19 The Regional Approach - Alluvial Fans along the Dead Sea-Arava Rift Valley 19.1 Setting 19.2 Lake Lisan and the Dead Sea 19.3 The drop of Lake Lisan - Exposure of the Dead Sea Area 19.4 Fan Incision 19.5 The Lowering Base-Level Effect 19.6 The Arava Rift Valley