The gravel-sand transition: Flume study of channel response to reduced slope

Geomorphology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 147-159

  Sambrook Smith, Gregory H ^a   Ferguson, Robert I ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED TEXTURE; CHANNEL RESPONSE; FLUME EXPERIMENT; GRAVEL/SAND TRANSITION; SLOPE;

EID: 0029767642     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0169-555X(95)00140-Z     Document Type: Article

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