Rill hydraulics on a semiarid hillslope, southern Arizona

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-47

  Abrahams, Athol D ^a   Li, Gang ^a   Parsons, Anthony J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arizona; Deserts; Hillslopes; Hydraulics; Rills

Indexed keywords

FLOW VELOCITY; OVERLAND FLOW; RILL HYDRAULICS; SEMIARID RANGELAND;

USA, ARIZONA, WALNUT GULCH;

EID: 0029750638     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199601)21:1<35::AID-ESP539>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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