Channel-floodplain geomorphology along the Solimões-Amazon River, Brazil

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1089-1107

  Mertes, Leal A K ^a   Dunne, Thomas ^a   Martinelli, Luiz A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHES; BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); DEPOSITION; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); EROSION; FLOODS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LAKES; RECYCLING; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; TOPOGRAPHY;

BRAZILIAN AMAZON; CHANNEL MIGRATION; FLOODPLAIN GEOMORPHOLOGIES; FLOODPLAIN SEDIMENTS; OVERBANK DEPOSITION; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION; SEDIMENT EROSION; WATER SURFACE GRADIENT; ARCH STRUCTURES; RIVER TRANSPORTS; SHALLOW LAKES;

RIVERS;

CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; CONSTRUCTION METHOD; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; RIVER SYSTEM; SHALLOW WATER; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TOPOGRAPHY; EROSION; REWORKING; RIVER NETWORK;

AMAZON RIVER; AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; SOLIMOES RIVER; SOLIMOES-AMAZON RIVER;

EID: 0030450604     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<1089:CFGATS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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