Patterns and processes of sediment sorting in gravel-bed rivers

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-32

  Powell, D Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bed material; Bedload transport; Fluvial sedimentology; Gravel bed rivers; Sediment sorting

Indexed keywords

BED MATERIAL; BEDLOAD TRANSPORT; FLUVIAL SEDIMENTOLOGY; GRAVEL BED; SEDIMENT SORTING;

EID: 0031844170     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030913339802200101     Document Type: Article

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