Channel flow competence and sediment transport in upland streams in southeast Australia

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 329-352

  Thompson, Chris ^a   Croke, Jacky ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bedload; Floods; Reach morphology; Regime diagrams; Sediment transport

Indexed keywords

CASCADES (FLUID MECHANICS); DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FRICTION; LITHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; TOPOGRAPHY;

BEDLOAD TRANSPORT; COREY SHAPE FACTOR;

STREAM FLOW;

CASCADES (FLUID MECHANICS); DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); FRICTION; LITHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; OPEN CHANNEL FLOW; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; STREAM FLOW; TOPOGRAPHY;

BEDFORM; BEDLOAD; CHANNEL FLOW; FLOOD DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS; STREAM CHANNEL;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

EID: 41549091979     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1558     Document Type: Article

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