Riffle-pool maintenance and flow convergence routing observed on a large gravel-bed river

Geomorphology

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 143-160

  Sawyer, April M ^a   Pasternack, Gregory B ^a   Moir, Hamish J ^b   Fulton, Aaron A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Channel change; Fluvial geomorphology; Hydrodynamic modeling; Pool riffle sequence; Velocity reversal

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CHANGE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DISCHARGE; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAVEL BED STREAM; HYDRODYNAMICS; MORPHODYNAMICS; RIFFLE; RIVER BED;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUBA RIVER;

EID: 70749132818     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.06.021     Document Type: Article

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