Tracking painted pebbles: Short-term rates of sediment movement on four Mojave Desert piedmont surfaces

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1-15

  Persico, Lyman P ^a   Nichols, Kyle K ^b   Bierman, Paul R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; MILITARY VEHICLES; PERSONNEL TRAINING;

BIOTURBATION; MOJAVE DESERT; PEBBLES; SHORT-TERM SEDIMENT MOVEMENTS;

SEDIMENTS;

EPHEMERAL STREAM; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STREAMFLOW;

EPHEMERAL STREAM; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STREAMFLOW;

MOJAVE DESERT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 23944504247     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR003990     Document Type: Article

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