Effects of hydraulic roughness on surface textures of gravel-bed rivers

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3507-3521

  Buffington, John M ^a,b   Montgomery, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BED ROUGHNESS; BEDFORM; GRAVEL BED STREAM; TEXTURE; WOODY DEBRIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032722661     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900138     Document Type: Article

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