Differences in Sediment Supply to Braided and Single-Thread River Channels: What Do the Data Tell Us?

Gravel-Bed Rivers: Processes, Tools, Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 502-511

  Pitlick, John ^a   Mueller, Erich R ^a   Segura, Catalina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Active width; Armoring ratio; Reference shear stress; Transport capacity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887179454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119952497.ch35     Document Type: Chapter

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