Transverse instability of megaripples

Geology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 459-462

  Yizhaq, Hezi ^a   Katra, Itzhak ^a   Kok, Jasper F ^b   Isenberg, Ori ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Institute for the Study of the Continents   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COARSE PARTICLES; DRIFT VELOCITIES; EXAMPLE BASED; FIELD WORKS; GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; INITIAL PERTURBATION; INSTABILITY GROWTH; INVERSE DEPENDENCE; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SAND RIPPLE; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TRANSVERSE INSTABILITY; TRANSVERSE PERTURBATION; UNIMODAL;

SAND;

STABILITY;

EOLIAN PROCESS; GRAIN SIZE; GROWTH RATE; INSTABILITY; RIPPLE; SANDBANK; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84861387706     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G32995.1     Document Type: Article

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