The causes of bedload pulses in a gravel channel: The implications of bedload grain-size distibutions

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 1411-1428

  Cudden, Judith R ^a,b   Hoey, Trevor B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bedload pulses; Bedload transport; Grain size distribution; Gravel bed river; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

BRIDGES; DATA RECORDING; EROSION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SEDIMENTS; SHEAR STRESS;

BEDLOAD TRANSPORT;

GRAVEL;

BEDLOAD; GRAIN SIZE; GRAVEL BED STREAM; SHEAR STRESS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HAUT GLACIER D'AROLLA; PENNINE ALPS; SWITZERLAND; VALAIS;

EID: 0345830742     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.521     Document Type: Article

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