Geomorphic threshold conditions for gully erosion in Southwestern Iran (Boushehr-Samal watershed)

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 180-189

  Nazari Samani, Aliakbar ^a   Ahmadi, Hassan ^a   Jafari, Mohammad ^a   Boggs, Guy ^b   Ghoddousi, Jamal ^c   Malekian, Arash ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SOIL CONSERVATION AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Area slope; Erosion; Gullying processes; Iran; Landuse impact; Soil attributes; Threshold; Topography

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; COHESIONLESS SOIL; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GULLY EROSION; LAND USE; LANDSLIDE; SEMIARID REGION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION COVER;

ASIA; EURASIA; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 63449111234     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2009.02.004     Document Type: Article

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