Reexamining the determination of the fractal dimension of river networks

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 3123-3135

  Claps, Pierluigi ^a   Oliveto, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS; ITALY; RIVER;

FRACTAL DIMENSION; FRACTAL GEOMETRY; RIVER NETWORK;

EID: 0029659592     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96WR01942     Document Type: Article

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