The Lena River: Hydromorphodynamic Features in a Deep Permafrost Zone

Large Rivers: Geomorphology and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 225-233

  Costard, François ^a   Gautier, Emmanuèle ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE GÉOGRAPHIE PHYSIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

Author keywords

Archean and Proterozoic crystalline and metamorphic rocks; Bed sediment transport; Coarse noncohesive substratum and cohesive top stratum; Continental ice sheet and alpine glaciers; Flat floored and deep sided depressions; Ice jams and log jams; Multichannel anabranching pattern; Soil temperature and permafrost temperature; Thermal and mechanical erosion; Thermo erosive niches and thermokarstic subsidence

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PERMAFROST; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

ALPINE GLACIER; ANABRANCHING; COARSE NONCOHESIVE SUBSTRATUM AND COHESIVE TOP STRATUM; FLAT-FLOORED AND DEEP-SIDED DEPRESSIONS; ICE JAMS; MECHANICAL EROSION; PROTEROZOIC; SOIL TEMPERATURE;

THERMAL LOGGING;

EID: 79958798082     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470723722.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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