The Influence of Aggradation Rate on Braided Alluvial Architecture: Field Study and Physical Scale-Modelling of the Ashburton River Gravels, Canterbury Plains, New Zealand

Fluvial Sedimentology VI

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 331-346

  Ashworth, P J ^a   Best, J L ^a   Peakall, J ^a   Lorsong, J A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alluvial facies and architecture; Canterbury plains, on east coast of south island, New Zealand; Classification of field and flume braided alluvial architectur; Effect of changing aggradation rate on alluvial architecture; Flume model and scaling details; Flume field comparison; Grain size distributions for modern Ashburton river and Ashburton outcrop; Influence of aggradation rate on braided alluvial architecture

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITION; FLOODS; GEOMETRY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

ALLUVIAL ARCHITECTURE; FLUME MODELS; FLUME-FIELD COMPARISON; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOUTH ISLAND , NEW ZEALAND;

RIVERS;

EID: 84946740880     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444304213.ch24     Document Type: Chapter

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