Experimental evidence that rill-bed morphology is governed by emergent nonlinear spatial dynamics

Abstract Past experimental work found that rill erosion occurs mainly during rill formation in response to feedback between rill-flow hydraulics and rill-bed roughness, and that this feedback mechanism shapes rill beds into a succession of step-pool units that self-regulates sediment transport capac...

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Main Authors: Savannah Morgan, Ray Huffaker, Rafael Giménez, Miguel A. Campo-Bescos, Rafael Muñoz-Carpena, Gerard Govers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-12-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26114-0