Combining suspended sediment monitoring and fingerprinting to determine the spatial origin of fine sediment in a mountainous river catchment

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1072-1089

  Evrard, Olivier ^a   Navratil, Oldrich ^a,c   Ayrault, Sophie ^a   Ahmadi, Mehdi ^a   Némery, Julien ^a   Legout, Cédric ^a   Lefèvre, Irène ^a   Poirel, Alain ^b   Bonté, Philippe ^a   Esteves, Michel ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b EDF R AND D   (France)

^c Cemagref   (France)

Author keywords

Elemental geochemistry; Monte Carlo mixing model; Mountain erosion; Radionuclides; River; Sediment fingerprinting; Suspended sediment yield

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DEPOSITS; EROSION; FERTILIZERS; GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; LIME; LIMESTONE; MIXING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; RADIOISOTOPES; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVER POLLUTION; RIVERS; RUNOFF;

ELEMENTAL GEOCHEMISTRY; MIXING MODELS; MOUNTAINOUS ENVIRONMENT; RADIONUCLIDE CONCENTRATION; RESERVOIR SILTATIONS; SEDIMENT FINGERPRINTING; SEDIMENT GEOCHEMISTRIES; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT YIELDS;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

CATCHMENT; EROSION RATE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIONUCLIDE; RIVER FLOW; SEDIMENT YIELD; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

ALPS; FRANCE;

EID: 79958744105     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2133     Document Type: Article

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