Form and growth of bars in a wandering gravel-bed river

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1422-1432

  Church, Michael ^a   Rice, Stephen P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternate bars; Bar accretion; Bar morphometry; Fraser river; Wandering channel

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATE BARS; BAR ACCRETION; BAR MORPHOMETRY; FRASER RIVER; WANDERING CHANNEL;

GRAVEL; PHOTOGRAPHY; STREAM FLOW;

RIVERS;

ACCRETION; ALLUVIAL FAN; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; GRAVEL; MORPHOMETRY; RIVER SYSTEM; SANDBAR;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; FRASER RIVER; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 69749093493     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1831     Document Type: Article

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