Upper-flow-regime mud floodplains, lower-flow-regime sand channels: Sediment transport and deposition in a drylands mud-aggregate river

Journal of Sedimentary Research

Volumn 77, Issue 9-10, 2007, Pages 702-712

  Wakelin King, Gresley A ^a   Webb, John A ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); DEPOSITS; FLOODS; RIVERS; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TEXTURES;

AGGREGATE PARTICLES; AGGREGATE STRUCTURES; CHANNEL CONDITIONS; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FLUVIAL TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT TEXTURES; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; STABILITY SPECTRUM;

AGGREGATES;

AGGREGATE; ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; DEPOSITION; FLOODPLAIN; MUD; PLANAR BEDDING STRUCTURE; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

EID: 35448982793     PISSN: 15271404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/jsr.2007.074     Document Type: Article

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