Sediment regime constraints on river restoration - An example from the lower missouri river

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 451, Issue , 2009, Pages 1-22

  Jacobson, Robert B ^a   Blevins, Dale W ^a   Bitner, Chance J ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Kansas City District Corps of Engineers   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FLOODS; RESTORATION; RIVER POLLUTION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; WATER QUALITY;

CHANNEL ENGINEERING; CUMULATIVE EFFECTS; ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT; FLOW REGIME MANAGEMENT; OPERATIONAL LIMITS; RESTORATION PROJECT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT LOADS; SUSTAINABLE RESTORATION;

RIVERS;

AGGRADATION; CHANNEL FLOW; ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; HABITAT QUALITY; RIVER BED; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER ENGINEERING; RIVER MANAGEMENT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER STORAGE;

GAVINS POINT DAM; MISSOURI RIVER; UNITED STATES;

AVES;

EID: 74949139507     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2451(01)     Document Type: Article

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