Network-scale dynamics of grain-size sorting: Implications for downstream fining, stream-profile concavity, and drainage basin morphology

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 401-421

  Gasparini, Nicole M ^a   Tucker, Gregory E ^b   Bras, Rafael L ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel concavity; Downstream fining; Gravel sand transition; River network

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LANDFORMS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SEDIMENTS; TEXTURES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

GRAIN-SIZE SORTING; HOMOGENOUS; NETWORK-SCALE DYNAMICS; SURFACE TEXTURE;

EARTH SCIENCES;

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DRAINAGE BASIN; GRAIN SIZE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SORTING; STREAM BED;

EID: 2142651754     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1031     Document Type: Article

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