A numerical model to develop long-term sediment budgets using isotopic sediment fingerprints

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 53, Issue , 2013, Pages 114-122

  Viparelli, Enrica ^a,b   Wesley Lauer, J ^c   Belmont, Patrick ^b,d   Parker, Gary ^a,b,e  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel morphodynamics; Floodplains; Geomorphology; Radionuclides; Sediment tracers

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FALLOUT; CHANNEL MORPHODYNAMICS; EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS; FIRST ORDER RATE EQUATION; FLOOD-PLAINS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; OVERBANK DEPOSITION; TRACER CONCENTRATION;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); BUDGET CONTROL; DEPOSITION; EROSION; FLOODS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODELS; RADIOISOTOPES; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

SEDIMENTS;

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEPOSITION; EROSION RATE; FLOODPLAIN; MORPHODYNAMICS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIONUCLIDE; RIVER SYSTEM; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; TRACER;

EID: 84875213359     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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