Sources of fine sediment stored in agricultural lowland streams, Midwest, USA

Geomorphology

Volumn 236, Issue , 2015, Pages 44-53

  Lamba, Jasmeet ^a,b   Thompson, A M ^a   Karthikeyan, K G ^a   Fitzpatrick, Faith A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Land use; Sediment fingerprinting; Sediment sources; Sediment tracers; Stream bank erosion; Stream bed sediment

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BANK EROSION; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; POINT SOURCE; PROVENANCE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STREAM;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84924055313     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.02.001     Document Type: Article

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