Geography 3334A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bed Load, Sediment Transport, Viscosity
23 Oct 2016
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Short answer questions: definitions, explanations, diagrams. Everything from lab and lecture up until tomorrow. Answer 5 out of 8 (10 marks each: out of ten doesn"t necessarily mean 10 points, more complete answers get the full marks. Think about the basic concepts: sediment transport, river flow, channels. Read charlton text book: readings on owl. No shear stress, stream power, flow resistance, and critical shear stress equations as they are applicable to the concept of the actual action. My river case study due in two weeks: send professor a brief description of what we are doing and one source that we are doing. As the flow rises, the basic geometry of the channel changes. Discharge is essentially imposed on the channel, as the channel doesn"t determine the discharge. Discharge is imposed by the water shed, or climatic conditions, discharge is therefore an independent variable.
