Author(s): V. S. Neary; A. Mead; P. B. Williams; P. Goodwin
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Abstract: An analysis that derives the hydraulic geometry for river estuaries is presented. It combines hydraulic geometry relationships developed for fluvial channels with those developed more recently for tidal channels. Results obtained from this analysis are compared to channel features reconstructed from an 1860 U. S. Coastal Survey of the Napa River Estuary prior to human impacts. The comparison suggests the existence of a transition zone where fluvial and tidal processes interact to shape the channel cross-section. Within this transition zone, the stable channel cross-section can vary within the envelope bounded by fluvial and tidal hydraulic geometry relationships.
Year: 1997