The armoring process on the Fall River
Bruxvoort KJ and Thorne CR. 1986. The armoring process on the Fall River. WRD Report No. 86-4. National Park Service, Water Resources Division. Fort Collins, CO
By studying the extent of the armoring process in a gravel-bed river, an engineer or a geomorphologist can predict the stability of the bed. It is desirable to know the stability of a gravel bed to gain an understanding of the degree of degradation which can be expected. This paper describes the degree of armoring on a particularly dynamic stretch of the Fall River in Rocky Mountain National Park. It also compares models presented by Gessler (1970) and Shen (1983) to predict the extent to which a gravel bed will armor. The two models are then applied to this stretch of the Fall River and compared to data collected at the same site during the summer of 1984.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Bruxvoort, Kenton; Thorne, Colin
- Date of Issue
- 1986-01
- Publisher
- National Park Service, Water Resources Division
- Units
- ROMO , WRD
- Keywords
- Aquatic Sciences, Clemson, Dams, Erosion Modeling, Floods, Geomorphology, Lawn Lake Flood, Rivers, Rivers & Streams, Roaring River, Runoff, Sedimentation, WRBIB