Sediment transport of the Blue Nile at Khartoum

Quaternary International

Volumn 226, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 12-22

  Billi, Paolo ^a   El Badri Ali, Omer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KHARTOUM   (Sudan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDFORM; DISCHARGE; DUNE; FLOW VELOCITY; GRAIN SIZE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

ASWAN [EGYPT]; ASWAN DAM; BLUE NILE [SUDAN]; EGYPT; SUDAN;

EID: 77957139144     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.11.041     Document Type: Article

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