Barchans of Minqin: Sediment transport

Geomorphology

Volumn 96, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 233-238

  Wang, Zhen Ting ^a,b   Zhang, Jia Wu ^a   Zhang, Qian Hua ^b   Qiang, Ming Rui ^a   Chen, Fa Hu ^a   Ling, Yu Quan ^b  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Barchan; Brink; Sand flux; Spanwise

Indexed keywords

BARCHAN; FIELD METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WIND FORCING; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 47049098093     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.07.018     Document Type: Article

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