Yangtze sediment decline partly from Three Gorges Dam

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Volumn 87, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 185-190

  Xu, Kehui ^a   Milliman, John D ^a   Yang, Zuosheng ^b   Wang, Houjie ^b  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DAM CONSTRUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EROSION; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HUBEI; THREE GORGES DAM;

EID: 33846413402     PISSN: 00963941     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006EO190001     Document Type: Article

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