Delta progradation driven by an advancing sediment source: Coupled theory and experiment describing the evolution of elongated deltas

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Kim, Wonsuck ^a,b   Dai, Albert ^b,c   Muto, Tetsuji ^d   Parker, Gary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FANS; COUPLED THEORY; FEED POINT; LATERAL DIRECTIONS; MIGRATION RATES; MINE OPERATORS; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPEN WATER; PROGRADATION; SEDIMENT SOURCES; TAILINGS POND;

EXPERIMENTS; MINING; OUTFALLS; PIPELINES; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SLURRY PIPELINES;

RIVERS;

ALLUVIAL FAN; BEDROCK; BOUNDARY CONDITION; DELTA; DEPOSITION; LEVEE; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIPELINE; PROGRADATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SLURRY; TAILINGS;

EID: 72149106165     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007382     Document Type: Article

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