Sinuosity and fractal dimension of meandering rivers

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Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 491-500

  Montgomery, Keith ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Fox Valley   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL PLANFORM; FRACTAL DIMENSION; MEANDER; MODEL; RIVER MEANDER; SINUOSITY;

EID: 0030430648     PISSN: 00040894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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