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Sediment cascades in the environment: an integrated approach -- Mountains and montane channels -- Landslides and rockfalls -- Sediment cascades in active -- Pacific rim steeplands -- Local buffers to the sediment cascade: debris cones and alluvial fans -- Overland flow and soil erosion -- Erosional processes and sediment transport in upland mires -- Gravel-bed rivers -- The fine-sediment cascade -- Streams, valleys and floodplains in the sediment cascade -- Lakes and reservoirs in the sediment -- Continental-scale river basins -- Estuaries -- The continental shelf and continental.