Bed form initiation from a flat sand bed

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Venditti, Jeremy G ^a,c,d   Church, Michael A ^a   Bennett, Sean J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Stillwater Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDFORM; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TURBULENT FLOW; VELOCITY PROFILE;

EID: 28244465376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JF000149     Document Type: Article

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