The role of sediment specific gravity and availability on cluster evolution

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-86

  Papanicolaou, A N ^a   Strom, K ^a   Schuyler, A ^b   Talebbeydokhti, N ^c  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

^b CAROLLO ENGINEERS   (United States)

^c SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cluster geometry; Cluster microforms; Image analysis; Incipient conditions; Sediment availability; Specific gravity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLASS; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENES; SEDIMENTS;

CLUSTER EVOLUTION;

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY);

BEDFORM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GRAVEL BED STREAM; GRAVITY; SEDIMENT YIELD;

EID: 0037284386     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.427     Document Type: Article

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