The nature of small-scale flooding, muddy floods and retention pond sedimentation in central Belgium

Geomorphology

Volumn 29, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 275-292

  Verstraeten, Gert ^a   Poesen, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Central Belgium; Economic costs; Muddy floods; Retention ponds; Sediment yield; Small scale flooding

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC IMPACT; FLOOD; SOIL EROSION; STORMWATER;

BELGIUM;

EID: 0033384644     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(99)00020-3     Document Type: Article

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