Sediment supply as a driver of river meandering and floodplain evolution in the Amazon Basin

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 899-903

  Constantine, José Antonio ^a   Dunne, Thomas ^b   Ahmed, Joshua ^a   Legleiter, Carl ^c   Lazarus, Eli D ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIN EVOLUTION; CUTOFF WALL; FLOODPLAIN; LANDSAT; MEANDER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUSPENDED LOAD;

AMAZON BASIN;

EID: 84927520747     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2282     Document Type: Article

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