Linking long-term gully and river channel dynamics to environmental change using repeat photography (Northern Ethiopia)

Geomorphology

Volumn 129, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 238-251

  Frankl, Amaury ^a   Nyssen, Jan ^a   De Dapper, Morgan ^a   Haile, Mitiku ^b   Billi, Paolo ^a,c   Munro, R Neil ^d   Deckers, Jozef ^e   Poesen, Jean ^e  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^d Old Abbey Associates   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cross section; Erosion; Gully; Hydrological regime; Northern Ethiopia; Repeat photography

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EROSION RATE; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GULLY; HEADWATER; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; RIVER CHANNEL;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 79955036979     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.02.018     Document Type: Article

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