The anastomosing pattern and the extensively distributed scroll bars in the middle Amazon River

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1471-1488

  Rozo, Max G ^a   Nogueira, Afonso C R ^a   Truckenbrodt, Werner ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Amazon River; Anastomosing pattern; Channel changes; Scroll bars

Indexed keywords

AMAZON RIVER; ANASTOMOSING PATTERN; ANASTOMOSING SYSTEMS; AVULSION FREQUENCY; CHANNEL CHANGE; EROSION CONTROL; EXTERNAL CONDITIONS; FIELD DATA; FLOOD PLAINS; MULTI-CHANNEL; OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; RELATIVE STABILITIES; REMOTE SENSING DATA; RIVER SYSTEMS; SECONDARY CHANNELS; SEDIMENTARY PROCESS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

FLOODS; LUMINESCENCE; MORPHOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SURGERY;

RIVERS;

AVULSION; BRAIDED RIVER; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; EROSION CONTROL; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; MEANDER; SEDIMENT YIELD;

AMAZON RIVER; BRAZIL; MADEIRA RIVER; RIO NEGRO [SOUTH AMERICA];

EID: 84868138470     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3249     Document Type: Article

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