EP52A:
Grain Sorting in Sediment Transport I

Session ID#: 4391

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
2005 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Philippe Frey, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, IRSTEA, Grenoble, France and Kimberly M Hill, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Primary Convener:  Philippe Frey, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, IRSTEA, Grenoble, France; Universite Grenoble Alpes, F-38041 Grenoble, France
Co-conveners:  Kimberly M Hill, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Michael A Church, Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
OSPA Liaison:  Michael A Church, University of British Columbia, Department of Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

1815 Erosion [HYDROLOGY]
1825 Geomorphology: fluvial [HYDROLOGY]
1862 Sediment transport [HYDROLOGY]
4460 Pattern formation [NONLINEAR GEOPHYSICS]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Downstream lightening and upward heavying, sorting of sediments of uniform grain size but differing in density (Invited) (3614)
Enrica Viparelli, University of South Carolina, Columbia, Columbia, United States, Luca Solari, University of Florence, Dept. Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florence, Italy and Kimberly M Hill, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Force chains as the link between particle and bulk friction angles in granular material (31069)
Adam Michael Booth, Portland State University, Department of Geology, Portland, OR, United States, Ryan Hurley, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Michael P Lamb, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States and Jose Andrade, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Particle sorting in Filter Porous Media and in Sediment Transport: A Numerical and Experimental Study (27071)
Lee G Glascoe1, Souheil M Ezzedine2, Yuliya Kanarska1, I N Lomov1, Tarabay Antoun1, Jarrell Smith3, Robert Hall3 and Stand Woodson3, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Univ California LLNL, Livermore, United States, (3)USACE-ERDC Information Technology Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States
Generalized sorting profile of alluvial fans (Invited) (6086)
Douglas J Jerolmack, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, Philadelphia, United States and Kimberly Litwin Miller, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
Controls on the abruptness of gravel-sand transitions (24897)
Jeremy G Venditti, Simon Fraser University, School of Environmental Science, Burnaby, BC, Canada, Michael A Church, University of British Columbia, Department of Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Michael P Lamb, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, Natalia Domarad, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada and Colin D Rennie, University of Ottawa, Department of Civil Engineering, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Application of image texture analysis to grain sorting in a braided river physical model (23044)
Peter Ashmore1, Pauline Leduc2 and Tobi Gardner2, (1)University of Western Ontario, Geography, London, ON, Canada, (2)University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
Simulating Sediment Sorting of Streambed Surfaces – It’s the Supply, Stupid (27969)
Peter R Wilcock, Utah State University, Watershed Sciences, Logan, United States