Depositional processes, bedform development and hybrid bed formation in rapidly decelerated cohesive (mud-sand) sediment flows

Sedimentology

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1953-1987

  Baas, Jaco H ^a   Best, James L ^b   Peakall, Jeffrey ^c  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bed shear strength; Bedforms; Clay suspensions; Cohesion; Current ripples; Flow deceleration; Hybrid beds; Turbulence modulation

Indexed keywords

BEDFORMS; CLAY SUSPENSIONS; COHESION; CURRENT RIPPLES; HYBRID BEDS; TURBULENCE MODULATION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLAY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DEPOSITS; KAOLIN; PIPE FLOW; REYNOLDS NUMBER; SAND; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILT; STEADY FLOW; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; TRANSITION FLOW; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

BEDFORM; COHESION; DEPOSITION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; RIPPLE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SHEAR STRENGTH; STEADY FLOW; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TURBULENCE; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 81855194280     PISSN: 00370746     EISSN: 13653091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3091.2011.01247.x     Document Type: Article

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