Types of river channel patterns and their natural controls

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 467-474

  Alabyan, Andrei M ^a   Chalov, Roman S ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Anastomosis; Braiding; Channel pattern; Continuum concept; Effective discharge curve; Meandering

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; RIVER CHANNEL; STREAM CHANNEL; CHANNEL DEVELOPMENT; CHANNEL PATTERN; MEANDER;

EID: 0031657963     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199805)23:5<467::AID-ESP861>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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