Large River Floodplains

Treatise on Geomorphology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages 645-678

  Dunne, T ^a   Aalto, R E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anabranch; Bank erosion; Braid bars; Braid channel; Channel migration; Channel planform; Chute cutoff; Continental tectonics; Crevasse; Floodplain channel; Flow regimes; Hydraulics; Lateral accretion; Levee; Meander; Neck cutoff; Oxbow; River bar; Sand splay; Scroll bar; Sea level rise; Sediment supply; Sedimentation; Vertical accretion; Wandering river

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890473985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00258-X     Document Type: Chapter

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