Confirmation of a theory: reconstruction of an alluvial plain development in a flume experiment

0471459 - ÚGN 2017 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Bertalan, L. - Tóth, C. A. - Szabó, G. - Nagy, G. - Kuda, František - Szabó, S.
Confirmation of a theory: reconstruction of an alluvial plain development in a flume experiment.
Erdkunde. Roč. 70, č. 3 (2016), s. 271-285. ISSN 0014-0015
Institutional support: RVO:68145535
Keywords : fluvial geomorphology * flume experiment * avulsion
Subject RIV: DE - Earth Magnetism, Geodesy, Geography
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Fluvial geomorphologists have tried to describe the outstanding tectonically affected avulsion process of Tisza River at the Great Hungarian Plain by various theoretical concepts. Flume experiments provide the ability to examine the main characteristic processes of a highlighted surface development theory under controlled settings within an accelerated time scale. Our goal was to reconstruct and refine these hypotheses from a new experimental point of view. In this study we performed an experiment of the avulsion process mentioned above on a 12 x 5 x 2.5 m flume where a special instrument was planted under the sand layers in order to simulate the vertical tectonic movements. A terrestrial laser scanner was used to record the different stages of the topographic evolution.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0268841