Characteristic dimensions of the step-pool bed configuration: An experimental study

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1-11

  Curran, Joanna C ^a   Wilcock, Peter R ^b  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACE WAVES;

BED ROUGHNESS; SPACING; STEP-FORMING GRAINS; STEP-POOL BED CONFIGURATION;

SEDIMENTS;

BED ROUGHNESS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

EID: 15444370226     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003568     Document Type: Article

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