Particle transport over rough hillslope surfaces by dry ravel: Experiments and simulations with implications for nonlocal sediment flux

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Gabet, Emmanuel J ^a   Mendoza, Morgan K ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; CREEP; DISCRETE ELEMENT METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUME EXPERIMENT; HILLSLOPE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEMIARID REGION; SLOPE ANGLE; STOCHASTICITY;

EID: 84857763848     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JF002229     Document Type: Article

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