Bed morphology, flow structure, and sediment transport at the outlet of Lake Huron and in the upper St. Clair River

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 480-493

  Czuba, Jonathan A ^a,b   Best, James L ^b,c,f   Oberg, Kevin A ^a   Parsons, Daniel R ^d   Jackson, P Ryan ^a   Garcia, Marcelo H ^b,f   Ashmore, Peter ^e  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b United States of America   (United States)

^c ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic Doppler current profiler; Lake Huron; Multibeam echo sounder; Secondary flow; Sediment transport; St. Clair River

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILERS; BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; BED MORPHOLOGY; BED TOPOGRAPHY; BEDFORMS; BLUE WATER; CHANNEL CURVATURE; FIELD SURVEYS; FLOW WAKE; GRAVEL BED; MEAN FLOW; MORPHODYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; MULTIBEAM ECHO SOUNDER; NEARSHORES; SHIP WRECK; ST. CLAIR RIVER;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BATHYMETRY; DOPPLER EFFECT; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; RIVERS; SECONDARY FLOW; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SHIP PROPULSION; SHIPS; SOIL MECHANICS;

LAKES;

ACCELERATION; ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; BEDFORM; BEDLOAD; COHESIVE SEDIMENT; DREDGING; ECHO SOUNDER; FIELD SURVEY; FLOW STRUCTURE; GLACIOLACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; MORPHODYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGY; SCOUR; SECONDARY FLOW; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TILL; TOPOGRAPHY; TURBULENCE;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE HURON; SAINT CLAIR RIVER;

EID: 80052344192     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2011.05.011     Document Type: Article

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