Response of bed morphology and bed material texture to hydrological conditions at an asymmetrical stream confluence

Geomorphology

Volumn 109, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 161-173

  Rhoads, Bruce L ^a   Riley, James D ^a   Mayer, Daniel R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b City of Clearwater   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed material; Bed morphology; Confluence; Hydrology

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CHANGE; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; CONFLUENCE; SCOUR; STREAM BED; TRIBUTARY;

EID: 67349128612     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.02.029     Document Type: Article

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