Maps that Matter

Drainage basin as sediment transfer system

Date: 1977

Creator: Stanley A. Schumm

• Published in Schumm’s 1977 research monograph The Fluvial System, this simple heuristic model stresses the relations between form and process in fluvial systems.
• Frequently used in teaching it comes to represent the turn towards process that dominates much contemporary geomorphology.
  

(Source: Newson M. (1992) Land Water and Development. London: Routledge.)