Sediment (un)balance budget in a high-gradient stream on flysch bedrock: A case study using dendrogeomorphic methods and bedload transport simulation

Catena

Volumn 124, Issue , 2015, Pages 18-27

  Šilhán, Karel ^a   Galia, Tomáš ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSTRAVA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Bedload transport modelling; Dendrogeomorphology; Flysch; High gradient channel; Sediment budget

Indexed keywords

BEDROCK; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOOD; GEOMORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

EID: 84907246924     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2014.08.020     Document Type: Article

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