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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 43, 期 8, 页码 3777-3785出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL068713
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- US National Science Foundation [EAR-1233685]
- NSERC
Median grain sizes on riverbeds range from boulders in uplands to silt in lowlands; however, rivers with similar to 1-5mm diameter bed sediment are rare. This grain size gap also marks an abrupt transition between gravel-and sand-bedded reaches that is unlike any other part of the fluvial network. Abrupt gravel-sand transitions have been attributed to rapid breakdown or rapid transport of fine gravel, or a bimodal sediment supply, but supporting evidence is lacking. Here we demonstrate that rivers dramatically lose the ability to transport sand as wash load where bed shear velocity drops below similar to 0.1m/s, forcing an abrupt transition in bed-material grain size. Using thresholds for wash load and initial motion, we show that the gap emerges only for median bed-material grain sizes of similar to 1-5 mm due to Reynolds number dependencies in suspension transport. The grain size gap, therefore, is sensitive to material properties and gravity, with coarser gaps predicted on Mars and Titan.
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