Chapter 8 A decade of sediment transport measurements in a large Mediterranean river (the Tordera, Catalan Ranges, NE Spain)

Developments in Earth Surface Processes

Volumn 7, Issue C, 2005, Pages 117-140

  Batalla, Ramon J ^a   Garcia, Celso ^b   Rovira, Albert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

Author keywords

bedload; lithology; Mediterranean river; sediment yield; suspended load

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956827736     PISSN: 09282025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-2025(05)80014-8     Document Type: Article

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