Form and process along the Taquari River alluvial fan, Pantanal, Brazil

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband

Volumn 129, Issue , 2002, Pages 73-107

  De Souza, Osni Corrêa ^a,b   Araujo, Maria Ribeiro ^a,b   Mertes, Leal A K ^a,c   Melack, John M ^a,c  

^a Embrapa Gado de Corte ^*

^b EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FAN; EROSION; FLOODPLAIN; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER CHANNEL; SEDIMENT YIELD;

BRAZIL; MATO GROSSO DO SUL; PANTANAL; PARAGUAY RIVER; SOUTH AMERICA; TAQUARI RIVER;

EID: 4444272126     PISSN: 00442798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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