Exchanges of sediment between the flood plain and channel of the Amazon River in Brazil

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 450-467

  Dunne, Thomas ^a   Mertes, Leal A K ^a   Meade, Robert H ^b   Richey, Jeffrey E ^c   Forsberg, Bruce R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BUDGET CONTROL; EROSION; FLOODS; FLOORS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION;

CHANNELIZED FLOW; EXCHANGE PROCESS; OVERBANK FLOW; PHYSICAL CONTROL; SEDIMENT BUDGETS; SEDIMENT LOADS; SEDIMENT SAMPLING; TECTONIC FEATURES;

RIVERS;

BANK EROSION; FLOODPLAIN; OVERBANK FLOW; RIVER CHANNEL; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TROUGH; FLUVIAL SEDIMENT;

AMAZON RIVER; BRAZIL;

EID: 0031712719     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<0450:EOSBTF>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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