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dc.contributor.authorFentie, B
dc.contributor.authorRose, CW
dc.contributor.authorCoughlan, KJ
dc.contributor.authorCiesiolka, CAA
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-02T04:12:15Z
dc.date.available2019-04-02T04:12:15Z
dc.date.issued1997
dc.identifier.issn0004-9573
dc.identifier.doi10.1071/S97019
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/121191
dc.description.abstractWe examined, both experimentally and theoretically, whether rilling results in higher soil erosion than would have occurred without rilling. The possibility of rilling occurs when overland flow-driven erosion processes are dominant over erosion due to raindrop impact, and that is the situation assumed in this paper. Stream power (or a quantity related to stream power such as shear stress) is commonly used to describe the driving variable in flow-driven erosion. Five flume experiments were designed to investigate the relationship between stream power and sediment concentration and how this relationship is affected by the ratio of width to depth of flow (r), and the frequency or number of rills per metre width (N) of rectangular rills. This paper presents the results of these experiments and uses a physically based soil erosion theory to show that the results of the 5 flume experiments are in accord with this theory. This theory is used to investigate the effect of all possible rectangular rill geometries and frequencies on the maximum possible sediment concentration, i.e. the sediment concentration at the transport limit, by developing general relationships for the influence of r and N on sediment concentration. It is shown that increased stream power, which can be due to rilling, does not necessarily result in higher sediment concentration.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherCSIRO Publishing
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1359
dc.relation.ispartofpageto1378
dc.relation.ispartofjournalAustralian Journal of Soil Research
dc.relation.ispartofvolume35
dc.titleThe Role of the Geometry and Frequency of Rectangular Rills in the Relationship between Sediment concentration and Stream Power
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Sciences, School of Environment and Science
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorRose, Calvin W.


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