Recent morphological evolution of the Lower Mississippi River

Geomorphology

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 227-249

  Biedenharn, David S ^a   Thorne, Colin R ^b   Watson, Chester C ^c  

^a WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggradation; Cutoffs; Degradation; Dynamic equilibrium; Mississippi River; Slope; Stream power

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; CHANNEL CHANGE; DEGRADATION; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SLOPE; STREAMFLOW;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033834940     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(00)00011-8     Document Type: Article

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