Channels in the making - an appraisal of channel evolution models

Geography Compass

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 759-777

  Van Dyke, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; METAMORPHOSIS; MODELING; RIVER CHANNEL; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 84887085122     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gec3.12082     Document Type: Article

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