Meander dynamics in a changing river corridor

Geomorphology

Volumn 130, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 197-207

  Magdaleno, Fernando ^a   Fernández Yuste, José A ^b  

^a Centro de Estudios y Experimentacion de Obras Publicas   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Channel change; Ebro; Geomorphology; Meander; River dynamics

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FLOODPLAIN; MEANDER; MORPHODYNAMICS; MORPHOSTRUCTURE; RIVER ENGINEERING; RIVER EVOLUTION; RIVER SYSTEM; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

EBRO RIVER; SPAIN;

EID: 79956109833     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.03.016     Document Type: Article

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