Tracing sediment redistribution across a break in slope using rare earth elements

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 575-587

  Michaelides, Katerina ^a   Ibraim, Ioana ^a   Nord, Guillaume ^b   Esteves, Michel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Deposition; Erosion; Experiment; Rare earth elements; Spatial patterns; Tracers' 'tag and trace'

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITED SEDIMENTS; DEPOSITION ZONE; DEPOSITION-EROSION; DOWNSLOPE; EROSION AND DEPOSITION; FLOW PATHWAYS; HEADCUTS; MORPHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS; SEDIMENT DEPOSITION; SEDIMENT REDISTRIBUTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT PROCESS; SIMULATED RAINFALL; SIZE SELECTIVITY; SOIL REDISTRIBUTION; SOURCE CONTRIBUTIONS; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

EXPERIMENTS; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; RARE EARTHS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL MECHANICS; SOILS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

DEPOSITION; EROSION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SLOPE; TRACER;

EID: 77951036532     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1956     Document Type: Article

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