Displacement and transport of marked pebbles, cobbles and boulders during floods in a steep mountain stream

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1899-1914

  Lenzi, Mario Aristide ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alps; Bedload transport; Boulder bed stream; Field methods; Floods; Grain displacement length; Step pool; Tracer techniques

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FLOOD DAMAGE; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

DOLOMITES; SUSTAINED SELECTIVE TRANSPORT;

HYDROLOGY;

BEDLOAD; BOULDER; FIELD METHOD; FLOOD; GRAIN SIZE; PEBBLE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ALPS; DOLOMITES; EASTERN ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 3242713339     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.1456     Document Type: Article

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