An opportunity to connect the morphodynamics of alternate bars with their sedimentary products

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 240-248

  Rodrigues, Stephane ^a   Claude, Nicolas ^a   Juge, Philippe ^a   Breheret, Jean Gabriel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

Author keywords

Alternate bars; Bedload transport; Field study; Flood; Loire River; Scour chains; Sequential channel bed topography; Stratigraphy

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; BED-LOAD TRANSPORT; CHANNEL BED; FIELD INVESTIGATION; FIELD STUDIES; FILL PROCESS; FLOOD EVENT; MORPHODYNAMICS; SCOUR DEPTH; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT RATE; SEDIMENTARY PROCESS; SIMPLE APPROACH;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BATHYMETRY; FLOODS; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; SCOUR; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STRATIGRAPHY;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

EID: 84856514410     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2255     Document Type: Letter

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