The formation of spherical clay balls on the slopes of sandpit quarry, the Rudice-Seč (Czech Republic)

Catena

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-40

  Faimon, Jiří ^a   Nehyba, Slavomír ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Clay balls; Cracks; Gully erosion; Rainfall; Shaping; Sphericity; Transport

Indexed keywords

CLAY; GULLY EROSION; RAINFALL; SOIL EROSION;

EID: 3543143091     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2004.01.002     Document Type: Article

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