A three-dimensional numerical model of sediment transport, erosion and deposition within a network of channel belts, floodplain and hill slope: Extrinsic and intrinsic controls on floodplain dynamics and alluvial architecture

Sedimentology

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1717-1745

  Karssenberg, Derek ^a   Bridge, John S ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alluvial architecture; Alluvial fan; Bifurcation; Floodplain evolution; Numerical modelling; Process based modelling

Indexed keywords

AGGRADATION; ALLUVIAL FAN; AVULSION; BIFURCATION; CHANNEL HYDRAULICS; DEPOSITION; EROSION; FLOOD DEPOSIT; FLOODPLAIN; HILLSLOPE; INCISED VALLEY; INFLOW; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEUSE RIVER; NETHERLANDS; RHINE DELTA; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 56349112451     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2008.00965.x     Document Type: Article

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