A sediment budget for an urbanizing watershed, 1951-1996, Montgomery County, Maryland, U.S.A.

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1483-1498

  Allmendinger, Nicholas E ^a   Pizzuto, James E ^b   Moglen, Glenn E ^c   Lewicki, Mikolaj ^d  

^a Otak Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel enlargement; Floodplain stratigraphy; Sediment budgets; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

EROSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTATION; WATERSHEDS;

CHANNEL ENLARGEMENT; FLOODPLAIN STRATIGRAPHY; SEDIMENT BUDGETS;

SEDIMENTS;

EROSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; WATERSHEDS;

CHANNEL CHANGE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; EROSION; FLOODPLAIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY; URBANIZATION; WATERSHED;

MARYLAND; MONTGOMERY COUNTY [MARYLAND]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 36649010427     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-1688.2007.00122.x     Document Type: Article

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