Discriminating between pore-filling load and bed-structure load: A new porosity-based method, exemplified for the river Rhine

Sedimentology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1571-1593

  Frings, Roy M ^a   Kleinhans, Maarten G ^a   Vollmer, Stefan ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF HYDROLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Downstream fining; Morphology; Pore filling load; Porosity; Wash load

Indexed keywords

ENTRAINMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE; POROSITY; RIVER BED; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; RHINE RIVER;

EID: 48349135807     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.00958.x     Document Type: Article

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