Meander cutoff and the controls on the production of oxbow lakes

Geology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-26

  Constantine, José Antonio ^a   Dunne, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Floodplains; Meander; Meandering; Oxbow lakes; Sinuosity

Indexed keywords

FLOODPLAINS; LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MEANDERING; OXBOW LAKES; SINUOSITY;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RIVERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LAKES;

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; FLOODPLAIN; MEANDER; OXBOW LAKE; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 38349061770     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G24130A.1     Document Type: Article

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