Stone cover on desert hillslopes: Extent of bias in diameters estimated from grid samples and procedures for bias correction

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 573-580

  Dunkerley, D L ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Grain diameter; Grid sampling; Sediment size analysis; Stone cover

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; DESERT HILLSLOPE; GRAIN DIAMETER; GRID SAMPLING; STONE COVER;

EID: 0029729264     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199606)21:6<573::AID-ESP624>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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