Alluvial Steep Channels: Flow Resistance, Bedload Transport Prediction, and Transition to Debris Flows

Gravel-Bed Rivers: Processes, Tools, Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 386-397

  Rickenmann, Dieter ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bedload transport; Debris flow; Flow resistance; Steep channel

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863310957     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119952497.ch28     Document Type: Chapter

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