Relation of sediment transport capacity to stone cover and size in rain-impacted interrill flow

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 497-504

  Abrahams, Athol D ^a   Gao, Peng ^a   Aebly, Frank A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b MICHAEL BAKER JR INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow transport; Hillslopes; Overland flow; Rain flow transport; Sediment transport; Surface roughness

Indexed keywords

HILLSLOPE; OVERLAND FLOW; RILL; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 0034023859     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9837(200005)25:5<497::AID-ESP77>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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