A physical model for seismic noise generation from sediment transport in rivers

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Tsai, Victor C ^a   Minchew, Brent ^a   Lamb, Michael P ^a   Ampuero, Jean Paul ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMOLOGY; SPECTRAL DENSITY;

FORWARD MODELS; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; IMPACT VELOCITIES; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; LINEAR MOMENTA; MODEL PREDICTION; PHYSICAL MODEL; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; SALTATING PARTICLES; SEDIMENT FLUX; SEDIMENT SIZE; SEISMIC NOISE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS;

GRAIN SIZE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MOMENTUM; RAYLEIGH WAVE; SALTATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEISMIC NOISE; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WAVE GENERATION;

EID: 84856474991     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050255     Document Type: Article

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