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Geosciences Theses

2012

Bed-material move-ment in unstable channels

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Urban Stream Channel Geomorphology: Investigating The Short-Term Channel Stability And Bed-Material Transportation Within A Rehabilitated Urban Stream Reach In Dekalb County, Georgia, Andreas Shoredits Dec 2012

Urban Stream Channel Geomorphology: Investigating The Short-Term Channel Stability And Bed-Material Transportation Within A Rehabilitated Urban Stream Reach In Dekalb County, Georgia, Andreas Shoredits

Geosciences Theses

Rivers and streams are sensitive to alterations in their watersheds and one of the greatest disturbances is from urban development. An urban stream channel in the Atlanta metropolitan area in the Georgia Piedmont was studied to establish the nature of adjustment the channel form was experiencing. This study compared a degraded channel with a channel influenced by stabilization efforts in the same stream reach, in order to investigate the behavior of channel adjustments towards a greater stability. Measurements of the short-term changes in channel cross-sectional area and bed-material volume, following a series of threshold flow events, were taken in the …