In-situ experimental research on water scouring of loess slopes

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 77, Issue 11, 2018, Pages

  Qiao, Xiaoying ^a   Li, Xi’an ^a   Guo, Yiwei ^a   Ma, Shaoyang ^a  

^a CHANG'AN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

In situ experiment; Loess Plateau; Loess slope; Subsurface erosion action; Water scouring

Indexed keywords

EROSION; LANDFORMS; SOIL CONSERVATION; WATER CONSERVATION;

CHINESE LOESS PLATEAU; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH; IN-SITU EXPERIMENTS; LOESS PLATEAU; LOESS PLATEAU OF CHINAS; LOESS SLOPES; SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION; SUBSURFACE EROSION ACTION;

SEDIMENTS;

DISCHARGE; EROSION RATE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LANDSLIDE; LOESS; RESEARCH WORK; RILL; RUNOFF; SCOUR; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WATER EROSION;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 85048171087     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-018-7593-1     Document Type: Article

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