Hydrologic modeling of flood conveyance and impacts of historic overbank sedimentation on West Fork Black's Fork, Uinta Mountains, northeastern Utah, USA

Geomorphology

Volumn 75, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 368-383

  Carson, Eric C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluvial; HEC RAS; Overbank sedimentation; Uinta Mountains

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; FLOODPLAIN; FLOW MODELING; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; OVERBANK FLOW; SEDIMENTATION;

NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UINTA MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 33645939967     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.07.022     Document Type: Article

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