EP52A:
Grain Sorting in Sediment Transport I

Friday, 19 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Philippe Frey, IRSTEA Grenoble, Saint Martin D'Hère Cedex, France and Kimberly M Hill, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Primary Conveners:  Philippe Frey, IRSTEA Grenoble, Saint Martin D'Hère Cedex, 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 Liaisons:  Michael A Church, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Downstream lightening and upward heavying, sorting of sediments of uniform grain size but differing in density
Enrica Viparelli, university of South Carolina, columbia, SC, United States, Luca Solari, University of Florence, Florence, Italy and Kimberly M Hill, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
10:35 AM
 
Force chains as the link between particle and bulk friction angles in granular material
Adam Michael Booth1, Ryan Hurley2, Michael P Lamb2 and Jose Andrade3, (1)Portland State University, Department of Geology, Portland, OR, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)California Institute of Techno, Pasadena, CA, United States
10:50 AM
 
Particle sorting in Filter Porous Media and in Sediment Transport: A Numerical and Experimental Study
Lee G Glascoe1, Souheil M Ezzedine2, Yuliya Kanarska1, Ilya Lomov1, Tarabay Antoun1, Jarell Smith3, Robert Hall3 and Stand Woodson3, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Univ California LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States, (3)USACE-ERDC Information Technology Laboratory, Vicksburg, MS, United States
11:05 AM
 
Generalized sorting profile of alluvial fans
Douglas J Jerolmack and Kimberly Litwin Miller, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
11:20 AM
 
A Laboratory Experiment on the Evolution of a Sand Gravel Reach Under a Lack of Sediment Supply
Clara Orru1, Victor Chavarrias1, Velia Ferrara2 and Astrid Blom1, (1)Delft University of Technology, Delft, 5612, Netherlands, (2)Environmental Engineering and Recovery, Faculty of Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, via Claudio 21, 80125, Italy., Faculty of Engineering,, Naples, Italy
11:35 AM
 
Controls on the abruptness of gravel-sand transitions
Jeremy G Venditti1, Michael A Church2, Michael P Lamb3, Natalia Domarad1 and Colin D Rennie4, (1)Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, (2)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (3)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
11:50 AM
 
Application of image texture analysis to grain sorting in a braided river physical model
Peter Ashmore, Pauline Leduc and Tobi Gardner, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada
12:05 PM
 
Simulating Sediment Sorting of Streambed Surfaces – It’s the Supply, Stupid
Peter R Wilcock, Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States