Discharge magnitude and frequency as a control on proglacial fluvial sedimentary systems

IAHS-AISH Publication

Volumn , Issue 276, 2002, Pages 297-303

  Marren, Philip M ^a   Russell, Andrew J ^a   Knudsen, Oskar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Braided river; Floods; Geomorphology; Glacial meltwater; Iceland; J kulhlaup; Sandur; Sedimentology

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FLOODS; GRAVEL; RIVERS;

PROGLACIAL SYSTEMS;

SEDIMENTATION;

FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GLACIAL HYDROLOGY; MAGNITUDE; PROGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 0036376554     PISSN: 01447815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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