Phase transition behavior of sediment transport at the sand-mud interface, across scales from flumes to the large rivers

Hongbo Ma1, Jeffrey A Nittrouer2, Baosheng Wu3, Yuanfeng Zhang4, David C Mohrig5, Michael P. Lamb6, Yuanjian Wang4, Xudong Fu7, Andrew J Moodie8, Kensuke Naito9 and Gary Parker10, (1)Rice University, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Houston, TX, United States, (2)Rice University, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Houston, United States, (3)Tsinghua University, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Beijing, China, (4)Yellow River Institute of Hydraulic Research, Zhengzhou, China, (5)The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, United States, (6)California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, (7)Tsinghua University, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China, (8)Texas A&M University, Department of Geography, College Station, United States, (9)Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia - UTEC, Centro de Investigación y Tecnología del Agua - CITA, Lima, Peru, (10)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Earth Science and Environmental Change & Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States