Changes in lowland floodplain sedimentation processes: Pre-disturbance to post-rehabilitation, Cosumnes River, CA

Geomorphology

Volumn 56, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 305-323

  Florsheim, Joan L ^a   Mount, Jeffrey F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anastomosing river; Floodplain sedimentation; Rehabilitation; Restoration; Sacramento Flood Basin; Sand splay complex

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HOLOCENE; SEDIMENTATION RATE;

CALIFORNIA; COSUMNES RIVER; SACRAMENTO RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0347525783     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(03)00158-2     Document Type: Article

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