Bedload tracing in a high-sediment-load mountain stream

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 385-399

  Liébault, Frédéric ^a   Bellot, Hervé ^a   Chapuis, Margot ^a,b   Klotz, Sébastien ^a   Deschâtres, Michaël ^a  

^a Cemagref   (France)

^b CEREGE   (France)

Author keywords

Bedload transport; Mountain stream; PIT tags; RFID; Sediment dispersion

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CHANNELS; BED LOAD; BED-LOAD TRANSPORT; DEEP BURIALS; DISPERSION PROCESS; GRAVEL-BED RIVERS; HEAVY-TAILED DISTRIBUTION; MOUNTAIN STREAM; MOUNTAIN STREAMS; PIT TAGS; POWER-LAW FUNCTIONS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RECOVERY RATE; SEDIMENT SUPPLY; STUDY SITES; TRANSPORT CAPACITY; TRAVEL DISTANCE;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CATCHMENTS; DISPERSIONS; EXPERIMENTS; GRAVEL; LANDFORMS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SEDIMENTOLOGY;

RIVERS;

BEDLOAD; CATCHMENT; CHANNEL FLOW; GRAVEL BED STREAM; MOUNTAIN STREAM; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TRACER; TRIBUTARY;

FRANCE;

EID: 84858614320     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2245     Document Type: Article

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