Complexity in a cellular model of river avulsion

Geomorphology

Volumn 91, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 259-270

  Jerolmack, Douglas J ^a   Paola, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluvial architecture; Morphodynamics; Nonlinear; Self organized

Indexed keywords

AVULSION; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; COMPLEXITY; FLOODPLAIN; MORPHODYNAMICS;

EID: 34548495127     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.04.022     Document Type: Article

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