From soil aggregates to riverine flocs: A laboratory experiment assessing the respective effects of soil type and flow shear stress on particles characteristics

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 4141-4155

  Grangeon, T ^a   Droppo, I G ^b   Legout, C ^a   Esteves, M ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aggregates; Flocs; Particle density; Particle size; Particle strength; Suspended sediment

Indexed keywords

EROSION; EXPERIMENTS; FLOCCULATION; PARTICLE SIZE; RIVERS; SHEAR STRESS; SOILS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; EFFECTIVE PARTICLE SIZE; EROSION AND DEPOSITION; FLOCS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PARTICLE DENSITIES; PARTICLE STRENGTH; TRANSPORT BEHAVIOUR;

AGGREGATES;

BROWN SOIL; CALCAREOUS SOIL; DEPOSITION; EROSION; FLOCCULATION; HILLSLOPE; PARTICLE SIZE; SHEAR STRESS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL TYPE; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT;

EID: 84902794241     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9929     Document Type: Article

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