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The exceptional sediment load of fine-grained dispersal systems: Example of the Yellow River, China

Published:2017-05-05 Issue:5 Volume:3 Page:
ISSN:2375-2548
Container-title:Science Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:Sci. Adv.

Author:

Ma Hongbo¹,Nittrouer Jeffrey A.¹,Naito Kensuke²^ORCID,Fu Xudong³,Zhang Yuanfeng⁴^ORCID,Moodie Andrew J.¹,Wang Yuanjian⁴,Wu Baosheng³^ORCID,Parker Gary²⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Earth Science, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251, USA.

2. Ven Te Chow Hydrosystems Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61801, USA.

3. State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China.

4. Yellow River Institute of Hydraulic Research, Zhengzhou, Henan 450000, P. R. China.

5. Department of Geology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61801, USA.

Abstract

We analyze why the sediment discharges of fine-grained rivers are an order of magnitude larger than predicted by current theory.

Funder

National Science Foundation

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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