Experimental evidence for the conditions necessary to sustain meandering in coarse-bedded rivers

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 40, 2009, Pages 16936-16941

  Braudrick, Christian A ^a   Dietrich, William E ^a   Leverich, Glen T ^b,c   Sklar, Leonard S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stillwater Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel patterns; Fluvial geomorphology; River meandering

Indexed keywords

ALFALFA; ARTICLE; EXPERIMENT; FLOOD TIDE; MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SAND; SEDIMENT;

AGRICULTURE; EARTH (PLANET); ECOSYSTEM; FLOODS; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MARS; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS; RIVERS; SATURN; WATER MOVEMENTS;

MEDICAGO SATIVA;

EID: 70350134451     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909417106     Document Type: Article

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