Floodplain architecture of an actively meandering river (the Ploučnice River, the Czech Republic) as revealed by the distribution of pollution and electrical resistivity tomography

Geomorphology

Volumn 254, Issue , 2016, Pages 41-56

  Matys Grygar, T ^a,b   Elznicova J ^b   Tumova S ^a,b   Famera M ^a,c   Balogh, M ^d   Kiss, T ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b J E PURKINJE UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Electric resistivity imaging; Facies assignment; Floodplain architecture; Floodplain recyclation; Pollution; Uranium

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; GIS; MEANDER; OVERBANK FLOW; SATELLITE DATA;

CZECH REPUBLIC; PLOUCNICE RIVER;

EID: 84948845976     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.11.012     Document Type: Article

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