Geomorphic Controls on Hyporheic Exchange Across Scales: Watersheds to Particles

Treatise on Geomorphology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages 203-218

  Wondzell, S M ^a   Gooseff, M N ^b  

^a Forestry Sciences Laboratory   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Back channels; Floodplain spring brooks; Hyporheic; Meander bends; Mid channel islands; Pool riffle sequence; Pumping exchange; Saturated hydraulic conductivity; Step pool sequence; Stream bedforms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901016170     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00238-4     Document Type: Chapter

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