[1] Field data from channels in the Henry Mountains of Utah demonstrate that abundant coarse sediment can inhibit fluvial incision into bedrock by armoring channel beds (the cover effect). We compare several small channels that share tributary junctions and have incised into the same sedimentary bedrock unit (Navajo Sandstone) but contain differing amounts of coarse diorite clasts owing to the ...

knowledge of habitat requirements of aquatic animals plays an important role in fisheries and protection programs of aquatic ecosystems. hence, this study was conducted to investigate the suitability indexes of habitat use and habitat suitability index (hsi) of barbus cyri in its distribution range in tootkabon river. a number of environmental variables, including elevation, water depth, river ...

A digital modulation method using Chirp-Slope Keying (CSK) is developed for coherent underwater acoustic communications. Effective signal detection is a critical stage in the implementation of any communications system; we will see that CSK solves some significant challenges to reliable detection. This thesis is primarily based on analyzing the effectiveness of CSK through simulations using Mat...

The rating curve is the relationship between the water stage and the associated discharge in a givensection of a channel. In steady flow, this relationship usually has exponential type, whereas inunsteady it flow has a looped shape. Since direct developing of actual looped rating curve by usinghydrometric methods is merely possible, steady-state rating curve is commonly used as a downstreamboun...

The Neogene and Quaternary sediments of the Faeroe-Shetland Channel and West Shetland shelf and slope rest upon a major regional unconformity, the Latest Oligocene Unconformity (LOU), and have been deposited through the interaction of downslope and parallel-to-slope depositional processes. The upper to middle continental slope is dominated by mass-transport deposits (debris flows), which progre...

It is well known that minimum received energy per bit Eb N0 ̨̨̨ min in the interference channel is −1.59dB as if there were no interference. Thus, the best way to mitigate interference is to operate the interference channel in the low power regime, that is in the limit of infinite bandwidth. However, when the bandwidth is large, but finite, Eb N0 ̨̨̨ min alone does not characterize performance. Verdu...

LS is a very important factor in erosion evaluation. Slope gradient and slope length is used to calculate LS factor. However a major limitation is the difficulty in extracting the LS factor at regional landscape scales. The geographic information systembased (GIS-based) methods which have been developed for estimating the slope length for USLE and RUSLE model also have limitations. he unit cont...