Transient attractors: Towards a theory of the graded stream for alluvial and bedrock channels

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 541-580

  Smith, Terence R ^a,b   Merchant, George E ^b   Birnir, Bjorn ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluvial geomorphology; Graded streams; Intermediate asymptotics; Longitudinal profiles; Similarity solutions

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; MASS TRANSFER; RIVER CHANNEL; STREAMFLOW;

EID: 0034106934     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-3004(99)00128-4     Document Type: Article

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