Meandering channel dynamics in highly cohesive sediment on an intertidal mud flat in the Westerschelde estuary, the Netherlands

Geomorphology

Volumn 105, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 261-276

  Kleinhans, Maarten G ^a   Schuurman, Filip ^a   Bakx, Wiecher ^a   Markies, Henk ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bank erosion; Cohesion; Erosive step; Meandering; Separated bend flow

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BANK EROSION; COHESIVE SEDIMENT; MEANDER; MODELING; MORPHOLOGY; MUDFLAT; SIMULATION; SLOPE STABILITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE; WESTERSCHELDE;

EID: 60349108459     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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