Morphological effects of local scouring in step-pool streams

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1567-1581

  Comiti, Francesco ^a   Andreoli, Andrea ^a   Lenzi, Mario A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Boulder bed streams; Grade control structures; Local scouring; Step pool

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMS; RIVERS; SCOUR; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; STREAM FLOW; WATERSHEDS;

BOULDER-BED STREAMS; GRADE CONTROL STRUCTURES; LOCAL SCOURING; STEP-POOL STREAMS;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; POOL-RIFFLE SEQUENCE; WATER EROSION;

EID: 28144464484     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1217     Document Type: Article

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