Hydroplaning of subaqueous debris flows

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 387-394

  Mohrig, David ^a,d   Whipple, Kelin X ^b   Hondzo, Midhat ^c   Ellis, Chris ^a   Parker, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FROUDE NUMBER; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

DENSIMETRIC FROUDE NUMBER; HEAD VELOCITY; HIGH VELOCITY; INERTIA FORCE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LONG RUN OUTS; SEDIMENT SUSPENSION; TURBIDITY CURRENT;

DEBRIS;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; DEBRIS FLOW; FROUDE NUMBER; GRAVITY FIELD; LABORATORY METHOD; TURBIDITY CURRENT; VELOCITY PROFILE; WATER PLANNING; HYDROPLANING; SEDIMENT SUSPENSION;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SUSPENDED LOAD; TURBIDITY;

EID: 84874966112     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1998)110<0387:HOSDF>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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