Linkage between grain-size evolution and sediment depletion during Colorado river floods

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 110, Issue , 1999, Pages 71-98

  Topping, David J ^a   Rubin, David M ^b   Nelson, Jonathan M ^a   Kinzel, Paul J ^a   Bennett, James P ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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EID: 85040098603     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/GM110p0071     Document Type: Chapter

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