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Sediment Transport and Movable Beds

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Transportation of sediment is an important and frequent phenomenon in rivers. Sediment is mobilized as bed-load with particles sliding, saltating, and rolling over the river bed, or as a suspended-load, where particles move with the turbulent water flow away from the bed.

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  1. University of Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain

    Oscar Castro-Orgaz

  2. VAW, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Willi H. Hager

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Castro-Orgaz, O., Hager, W.H. (2019). Sediment Transport and Movable Beds. In: Shallow Water Hydraulics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13073-2_10

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