Mountains and Montane Channels

Sediment Cascades: An Integrated Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 17-53

  Church, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Catastrophic regime; Mass wasting processes; Mountain and montane channels; Normal fluvial regime; Sediment transport; Sediment retaining structures; Steep channels

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871697343     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470682876.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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