Downstream fining through selective particle sorting in an equilibrium drainage network

Geology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1079-1082

  Gasparini, Nicole M ^a   Tucker, Gregory E ^a   Bras, Rafael L ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; CATCHMENTS; DEPOSITION RATES; DRAINAGE; EROSION;

DRAINAGE NETWORKS; FLUVIAL SYSTEMS; NATURAL DYNAMICS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; PARTICLE ABRASION; PARTICLE SORTING; SELECTIVE DEPOSITION; SELECTIVE TRANSPORT;

SCREENING;

ABRASION; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FINING SEQUENCE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SORTING;

EID: 0033494795     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<1079:DFTSPS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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