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River-bed armouring as a granular segregation phenomenon

River bed-load transport is a kind of dense granular flow, and such flows are known to segregate grains. While gravel-river beds typically have an “armoured” layer of coarse grains on the surface, which acts to protect finer particles underneath from erosion, the contribution of granular physics to...

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Autores principales: Ferdowsi, Behrooz, Ortiz, Carlos P., Houssais, Morgane, Jerolmack, Douglas J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5678076/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29118422
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01681-3