11 Feb 2014
The Grain-size Patchiness of Braided Gravel-Bed Streams – example of the Urumqi River (northeast Tian Shan, China)
L. Guerit
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, UMR CNRS 7154, Paris, France
L. Barrier
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, UMR CNRS 7154, Paris, France
C. Narteau
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, UMR CNRS 7154, Paris, France
F. Métivier
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, UMR CNRS 7154, Paris, France
Y. Liu
Key Laboratory of Water Environment and Resource, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin, China
The States Key laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Cold and Arid Region Environmental and Engineering and Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
E. Lajeunesse
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, UMR CNRS 7154, Paris, France
E. Gayer
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, UMR CNRS 7154, Paris, France
P. Meunier
École Normale Supérieure, Département de Géologie, UMR CNRS 8538, Paris, France
L. Malverti
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, UMR CNRS 7154, Paris, France
B. Ye
The States Key laboratory of Cryospheric Science, Cold and Arid Region Environmental and Engineering and Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
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