An experimental test of whether bar instability contributes to the formation, periodicity and maintenance of pool-riffle sequences

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1742-1756

  Wilkinson, Scott N ^a,b   Rutherfurd, Ian D ^b,c   Keller, Robert J ^d  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Alternate bar; Bar instability; Gravel bed river; Maintenance; Periodicity; Pool riffle sequence

Indexed keywords

FORMING; GRAVEL; LAKES; MAINTENANCE; MORPHOLOGY; RIVERS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ALTERNATE BAR; BAR INSTABILITY; BED FORMS; BED MORPHOLOGIES; CHANNEL WIDTHS; CRITICAL VALUES; DEPTH RATIOS; EXPERIMENTAL TESTS; IN CHANNELS; PERIODICITY; PHYSICAL MODELS; POOL-RIFFLE SEQUENCE; REHABILITATION MEASURES;

MAINTAINABILITY;

BED ROUGHNESS; BEDFORM; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMETRY; POOL; RIFFLE; RIVER BED; TESTING METHOD; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 57749169474     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1645     Document Type: Article

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