Bench development along the regulated, lower river Dee, UK

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 135-149

  Changxing, Shi ^a   Petts, Geoffrey ^b   Gurnell, Angela ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Channel change; Concave bench; Flow regulation; Point bench; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CHANGE; RIVER TERRACE; SEDIMENTATION; STREAMFLOW;

DEE RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032891315     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(199902)24:2<135::AID-ESP946>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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