Photographic techniques for characterizing streambed particle sizes

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 605-610

  Whitman, Matthew S ^a   Moran, Edward H ^a   Ourso, Robert T ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STREAM BED;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037904228     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2003)132<0605:PTFCSP>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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