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SUBMITTER: Ma H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6955285 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ma Hongbo H Nittrouer Jeffrey A JA Wu Baosheng B Lamb Michael P MP Zhang Yuanfeng Y Mohrig David D Fu Xudong X Naito Kensuke K Wang Yuanjian Y Moodie Andrew J AJ Wang Guangqian G Hu Chunhong C Parker Gary G
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20191218 1
Fine-grained sediment (grain size under 2,000 μm) builds floodplains and deltas, and shapes the coastlines where much of humanity lives. However, a universal, physically based predictor of sediment flux for fine-grained rivers remains to be developed. Herein, a comprehensive sediment load database for fine-grained channels, ranging from small experimental flumes to megarivers, is used to find a predictive algorithm. Two distinct transport regimes emerge, separated by a discontinuous transition f ...[more]