Sediment entrainment and depletion from patches of fine material in a gravel-bed river

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Vericat, Damia ^a   Batalla, Ramon J ^b,c   Gibbins, Chris N ^d  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; FLOODS; GRAVEL; HYDRAULICS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHEAR STRESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

BANKFULL; BED LOADS; EARLY STAGES; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCES; FINE SEDIMENTS; GRAVEL BEDS; HYDRAULIC CONDITIONS; LOW RATES;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

BEDLOAD; ENTRAINMENT; FLOOD; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GRAVEL BED STREAM; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SHEAR STRESS;

EID: 58149090824     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007028     Document Type: Article

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