Channel Form, Flows and Sediments of Endogenous Ephemeral Rivers in Deserts

Arid Zone Geomorphology: Process, Form and Change in Drylands

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 301-332

  Reid, Ian ^a   Frostick, Lynne E ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Channel form, flows and sediments of endogenous ephemeral rivers in deserts; Desert streams, differing from their perennial counterparts propagation of flood waves; Ephemeral river channel geometry desert streams, and their great width; Ephemeral streams, and rivers of American southwest century of channel change in Gila River, southern Arizona; Flash flood hydrograph; Fluvial sediment transport; Pattern of burial and exhumation tagged gravel clasts, during downstream transport in Nahal Hebron, northern Negev, Israel; Rivers, role in shaping the Earth's deserts; Sediment transport in suspension; Water, a significant agent of erosion in arid lands

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; FLOODS; LANDFORMS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

ARID LANDS; CHANNEL CHANGE; DESERT STREAMS; EPHEMERAL RIVER; FLASH FLOOD; FLOOD WAVES; PATTERN OF BURIAL AND EXHUMATION - TAGGED GRAVEL CLASTS, DURING DOWNSTREAM TRANSPORT IN NAHAL HEBRON, NORTHERN NEGEV, ISRAEL;

RIVERS;

EID: 84861493665     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470710777.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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