Tools and cover effects in bedload transport observations in the Pitzbach, Austria

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 26-37

  Turowski, Jens M ^a   Rickenmann, Dieter ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bedload transport; Bedrock erosion processes; Cover effect; Fluvial geomorphology; Hydrophone; Impact erosion; PBIS; Tools effect

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HYDRAULIC TOOLS; HYDROPHONES; LANDFORMS; LOCATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BEDLOAD TRANSPORT; BEDROCK EROSION PROCESSES; COVER EFFECT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; IMPACT EROSION; PBIS;

EROSION;

BEDLOAD; BEDROCK; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; EROSION; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAIN SIZE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 60649109118     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1686     Document Type: Article

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