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Review of Sorting Out Sand and Gravel: Sediment Transport and Deposition in Sand-Gravel Bed Rivers by Maarten Kleinhans

October 2003
Journal of Hydraulic Engineering 129(10)

October 2003
129(10)

DOI:10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9429(2003)129:10(828)

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Colorado State University

Sediment transport, deposition, and scour in the presence of dunes: grain sorting in the dune foreset lee side during peak flows; dune scour during waning flows, with resulting cross-bedding and upward fining lag deposit slightly modified from Kleinhans 2002; courtesy of Maarten Kleinhans.

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