Response and recovery of a sand-bed stream to a catastrophic flood

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 359-383

  Erskine, Wayne D ^a,b  

^a University of New South Wales ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL EROSION; FLOOD; RIVER RESPONSE; SAND BED STREAM;

AUSTRALIA, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, WOLLOMBI BROOK;

EID: 0030424920     PISSN: 03728854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/zfg/40/1996/359     Document Type: Article

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