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As water levels rise, the bed load of a gravel bed river is partly mobilised by drag forces. When the stream can no longer entrain these sediments, the pebbles are deposited on the bed and create locally depositional forms. These bars then perturb the flow and play an important role during subsequent floods.
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Deroanne, C., Petit, F. (1999). Longitudinal Evaluation of the Bed Load Size and of its Mobilisation in a Gravel Bed River. In: Casale, R., Margottini, C. (eds) Floods and Landslides: Integrated Risk Assessment. Environmental Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58609-5_22
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