A hybrid method for size characterization of coarse subsurface fluvial sediments

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 373-389

  Rice, Stephen P ^a   Haschenburger, Judith K ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Grain size distribution; Gravel bed river; Hybrid sampling; Sediment sampling; Surface subsurface relations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; CONSTRUCTION; GRAVEL; RIVERS; SAMPLING; SURFACES;

GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUBSURFACE HYBRID MODELS; SYNTHETIC SURFACE;

SEDIMENTS;

GRAIN SIZE; GRAVEL BED STREAM; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 1942474346     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1043     Document Type: Article

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