Evidence for nonlinear, diffusive sediment transport on hillslopes and implications for landscape morphology

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 853-870

  Roering, Joshua J ^a   Kirchner, James W ^a   Dietrich, William E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; LANDSCAPE MORPHOLOGY; LINEAR DIFFUSION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DIFFUSION; EROSION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HILLSLOPES; NONLINEAR DIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT LAW;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

HILLSLOPE; LANDSCAPE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

EID: 0033104555     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998WR900090     Document Type: Article

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