Grain-size distribution patterns of a point bar system in the Usri River, India

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 682-702

  Purkait, Barendra ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Grain size distribution; Log hyperbolic; Log normal; Log skew Laplace; Point bar; River

Indexed keywords

EROSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RIVERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

COARSER FRACTIONS; CROSS-BEDDING FORESET; FINER FRACTIONS; INTERMEDIATE SIZE FRACTIONS; LOG-HYPERBOLIC DISTRIBUTION MODEL; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION MODEL; LOG-SKEW-LAPLACE DISTRIBUTION MODEL; POINT BAR SYSTEM;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

EROSION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RIVERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

BEDFORM; GRAIN SIZE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ASIA; BIHAR; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; USRI RIVER;

EID: 33744465222     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1290     Document Type: Article

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