Equilibrium or indeterminate? Where sediment budgets fail: Sediment mass balance and adjustment of channel form, Green River downstream from Flaming Gorge Dam, Utah and Colorado

Geomorphology

Volumn 71, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 156-181

  Grams, Paul E ^a   Schmidt, John C ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel adjustment; Channel narrowing; Dams; Degradation; Floodplains; Sediment budget

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DAM CONSTRUCTION; MASS BALANCE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

GREEN RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 27144459498     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2004.10.012     Document Type: Article

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