Bed load at low Shields stress on arbitrarily sloping beds: Failure of the Bagnold hypothesis

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 31-1-31-16

  Seminara, Giovanni ^a   Solari, Luca ^a,c   Parker, Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bagnold hypothesis; Bedload; Entrainment; Erosion; Shear stress; Shields stress

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; SEDIMENTS; SHEAR STRESS;

BAGNOLD CONSTRAINTS; SLOPING BEDS;

WATER RESOURCES;

BEDLOAD; ENTRAINMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS;

EID: 0036880471     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr000681     Document Type: Article

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