A sediment fingerprinting approach to understand the geomorphic coupling in an eastern Mediterranean mountainous river catchment

Geomorphology

Volumn 197, Issue , 2013, Pages 64-75

  D'Haen, Koen ^a   Dusar, Bert ^a   Verstraeten, Gert ^a   Degryse, Patrick ^a   De Brue, Hanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Geomorphic coupling; Mediterranean; Provenance; Sediment fingerprinting

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; ENRICHMENT; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; PROVENANCE; RIVER BED; RIVER CHANNEL; RIVER SYSTEM; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHY;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; TURKEY;

EID: 84881310721     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.04.038     Document Type: Article

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