Causes of Avulsion: An Overview

Fluvial Sedimentology VI

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 169-178

  Jones, L S ^a,c   Schumm, S A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Avulsion relatively rapid shift of river to a new channel on lower part of a floodplain, alluvial plain; Avulsion: Modern and Ancient; Causes of avulsion; In channel deposition; Increased lateral slope away from existing channel; Lateral shift of channel intersecting adjacent leading to capture and avulsion of main channel

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); FLOODS; STABILITY;

AVULSION: MODERN AND ANCIENT; CAUSES OF AVULSION; IN-CHANNELS; INCREASED LATERAL SLOPE AWAY FROM EXISTING CHANNEL; LATERAL SHIFTS; NEW CHANNELS;

RIVERS;

EID: 84946732046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444304213.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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