The braided Milk River, Northern Montana, fails the Leopold-Wolman discharge-gradient test

Geomorphology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 337-353

  Simpson, Chris J ^a,b   Smith, Derald G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bank sediment; Braiding rivers; Channel change; Meandering rivers; Sand bed

Indexed keywords

BRAIDED RIVER; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; MEANDER; RIVER DISCHARGE; SAND;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035655259     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(01)00066-6     Document Type: Article

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