A sedimentological model to characterize braided river deposits for hydrogeological applications

Braided Rivers: Process, Deposits, Ecology and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 51-74

  Huggenberger, Peter ^a   Regli, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Gravel heterogeneity; Groundwater; Sedimentological model; Stochastic modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85213544393     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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