The localized role of base level lowering on channel adjustment of tributary streams in the Trinity River basin downstream of Livingston Dam, Texas, USA

Geomorphology

Volumn 128, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 42-56

  Musselman, Zachary A ^a  

^a MILLSAPS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel adjustment; Complex response; Dam effects; Tributary; Trinity River

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DAM; GEOMETRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; RIVER BASIN; RIVER CHANNEL; SCOUR; STREAM CHANNEL; TRIBUTARY;

TEXAS; TRINITY RIVER [TEXAS]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952243839     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.12.021     Document Type: Article

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