Terrace aggradation during the 1978 flood on Powder River, Montana, USA

Geomorphology

Volumn 99, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 387-403

  Moody, J A ^a   Meade, R H ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggradation; Coarsening upward sequences; Extreme floods; Terrace; Terrace evolution

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; DEPOSITION; EROSION; FLOOD; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; RIVER TERRACE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

NORTH AMERICA; POWDER RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 44749087782     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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