Running Water

A novel of danger, romance, and adventure as mountain-climbers struggle to rescue an explorer stranded on an enormous glacier. Running water is the most powerful agent of erosion. Continents are eroded primarily by running water at an average rate of 1 inch every 750 years. The velocity of a stream increases as its gradient increases but velocity is also influenced by factors such as degree of turbulence, position within the river, the course of the stream, the shape of the channel and the stream load.