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Abstract
The flow (Wright and Kaplinski, 2011), suspended sediment transport (Topping et al., 2000), sediment storage (Grams et al., 2013), and sedimentology of sandbars (Rubin et al., 1998) of the 250 miles of the Colorado River that run through Grand Canyon National Park have been well studied and described. However, there has been little systematic or synoptic description of the morphologies and sedimentology of the riverbed, where at least 80 percent of the active sand occurs (Grams et al., 2013). Here, we use high-resolution bathymetric and backscatter measurements collected with multibeam echosounder to comprehensively describe the morphology, sedimentology, and kinematics of sand dunes, and to estimate bedload sediment transport in certain reaches of the river.
| Publication type | Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Conference Paper |
| Title | The sand dunes of the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, USA |
| Year Published | 2017 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | University of Trento - Italy |
| Contributing office(s) | Southwest Biological Science Center |
| Description | 1 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Conference publication |
| Larger Work Title | RCEM 2017 – Back to Italy—The 10th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics |
| First page | 161 |
| Last page | 161 |
| Conference Title | RCEM 2017 – Back to Italy—The 10th Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics |
| Conference Location | Trento-Padova, Italy |
| Conference Date | September 15-22, 2017 |
| Country | United States |
| Other Geospatial | Colorado River, Grand Canyon |
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