Slope and rainfall effects on the volume of sediment yield by gully erosion in the Souar lithologic formation (Tunisia)

Catena

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 170-177

  Bouchnak, Hajer ^a   Sfar Felfoul, Mennoubi ^a   Boussema, Mohamed Rached ^a   Snane, Mohamed Habib ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS EL MANAR   (Tunisia)

^b NONE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Air photographs; Gully erosion; Lithologic formation; Rainfall; Sediment yield; Slope

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; GIS; GULLY EROSION; LITHOLOGY; RAINFALL; SEDIMENT YIELD; SEMIARID REGION; SLOPE; TERRACING; WATERSHED;

AFRICA; NORTH AFRICA; TUNISIA;

EID: 67349194907     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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