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Research article
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22 Mar 2017
Research article |
| 22 Mar 2017
Laboratory rivers: Lacey's law, threshold theory, and channel stability
François Métivier
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institut de physique du globe de Paris – Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS, UMR7154, 1 rue Jussieu, 75238 Paris CEDEX 05, France
Eric Lajeunesse
Institut de physique du globe de Paris – Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS, UMR7154, 1 rue Jussieu, 75238 Paris CEDEX 05, France
Olivier Devauchelle
Institut de physique du globe de Paris – Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS, UMR7154, 1 rue Jussieu, 75238 Paris CEDEX 05, France
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Short summary
More than a century of experiments have demonstrated that many features of natural rivers can be reproduced in the laboratory. Here, we revisit some of these experiments to show that, regardless of the river's planform (single-thread or braiding), laboratory rivers behave like their natural counterparts. We further suggest that sediment transport could be responsible for the transition into a braided river, which could, in turn, explain the scarcity of laboratory single-thread channels.
More than a century of experiments have demonstrated that many features of natural rivers can be...
