Bed clusters in humid perennial and Mediterranean ephemeral gravel-bed streams: The effect of clast size and bed material sorting

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 334, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 312-318

  Wittenberg, L ^a   Laronne, J B ^b   Newson, M D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bedforms; Channel morphology; Gravel bed rivers; Sediment sorting

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW;

BEDFORMS; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; GRAVEL-BED RIVERS; SEDIMENT SORTING;

HYDROLOGY;

CORRELATION METHODS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGY; RIVERS; STREAM FLOW;

BEDFORM; BEDLOAD; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; CLAST; EPHEMERAL STREAM; FLUME EXPERIMENT; GRAVEL BED STREAM; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; RIVER BED; SORTING;

EID: 33846622746     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2006.09.028     Document Type: Article

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