A case study of the processes displacing flow from the anabranching Ovens River, Victoria, Australia

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2120-2132

  Judd, Dean A ^a   Rutherford, Ian D ^a   Tilleard, John W ^b   Keller, Robert J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Moroka Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anabranching; Avulsion; Channel evolution; Meander extension; Vertical accretion

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; RIVERS;

AVULSION; CHANNEL EVOLUTION; FLOODPLAIN; LOCATION-FOR-TIME-MODELS; MEANDER EXTENSION;

HYDROLOGY;

GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; RIVERS;

AVULSION; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; FLOODPLAIN; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MEANDER; RIVER FLOW;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; OVENS RIVER; VICTORIA [AUSTRALIA];

EID: 37449011073     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1516     Document Type: Article

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