Positive feedback and momentum growth during debris-flow entrainment of wet bed sediment

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 116-121

  Iverson, Richard M ^a   Reid, Mark E ^b   Logan, Matthew ^a   LaHusen, Richard G ^a   Godt, Jonathan W ^a   Griswold, Julia P ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEDLOAD; DEBRIS FLOW; EROSIVITY; LANDSLIDE; MOMENTUM; RAINFALL; SCOUR; SNOWMELT;

EID: 79551614345     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1040     Document Type: Article

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