Active width of gravel-bed braided rivers

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1510-1521

  Ashmore, Peter ^a,c   Bertoldi, Walter ^b   Tobias Gardner, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c STANTEC CONSULTING LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

Braiding; River morphology; Sediment transport

Indexed keywords

BED LOAD; BED TOPOGRAPHY; BED-LOAD TRANSPORT; BRAIDED RIVER; BRAIDING; CHANNEL NETWORK; CHANNEL PATTERN; CONSTANT DISCHARGE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLUX CALCULATIONS; GENERAL TRENDS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; MORPHOLOGICAL PROCESS; NUMERICAL MODELS; PHYSICAL MODEL; RIVER MORPHOLOGY; STREAM POWER; THEORETICAL PREDICTION;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DYNAMICS; FORECASTING; GRAVEL; MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SURVEYS;

RIVERS;

BRAIDED RIVER; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAVEL BED STREAM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

EID: 84860389010     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2182     Document Type: Article

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