1. From Nanson and Croke, 1992

2. From Everitt, B.L., 1968. Use of cottonwood in an investigation of recent history of a flood plain. American Journal of Science 266:417-439.

3. Fig. 1.2, p. 22. Brown, A.G., 1997. Alluvial Geoarchaeology: Floodplain Archaeology and Environmental Change. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

4. From Brown, A.G., 1997. Alluvial Geoarchaeology: Floodplain Archaeology and Environmental Change. Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, figure 1.1, pg. 18.

5. From Reineck and Singh, 1980

6. From Smith, N.D., Cross, T.A., Duficy, J.P., and Clough, S.R., 1989. Anatomy of an avulsion. Sedimentology 36: 1-23.

7. Erskine, W., Melville, M., Page, K.J., and Mowbray, P.D., 1982. Cutoff and oxbow lake. Australian Geographer 15:174-180.

8. From Miller et al., 1998

10. (A) Figure 5, page 269; (B) figure 6, page 269 in Leece, S.A., 1997. Spatial patterns of historical sedimentation and floodplain evolution, Blue River, Wisconsin, Geomorphology 18:265-277. A B

11. Walling, D.E. and He, Q., 1998. The spatial variability of overbank sedimentation on river floodplains. Geomorphology 24:209-223, figure 3, p. 214.

12. From Shiono, K. and Knight, D.W., 1991. Turbulent open channel flows with variable depth across the channel. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 22:617-646 (and 231, 693).

13. Walling, D.E., He, Q., and Nicholas, A.P., 1996. Floodplains as suspended sediment sinks. In: M.G. Anderson, D.E. Walling, and P.D. Bates, Floodplain Processes, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, pp. 399-440, fig. 12.9b, p. 418.

14. From Macklin, 1996

15. Pb and Zn concentrations in surficial and subsurface floodplain sediments from the River Derwent, Derbyshire, England (adapted from Bradley and Cox, 1990).

16. From Macklin, 1996

17. Extracted from figures 2a and 3 (page 683) in Harrison, J., Heijnis, H., and Caprarelli, G., 2003. Historical pollution variability from abandoned mine sites, Greater Blue Mountains World Heritage area, New South Wales, Australia. Environmental Geology 43:680-687.

18. From Miller et al., 1999