Journal article
Distribution of clay-sized sediments in streambeds and influence of fine sediment clogging on hyporheic exchange
Shivansh Shrivastava, Michael J Stewardson, Meenakshi Arora
Hydrological Processes | Wiley | Published : 2020
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.13988
Abstract
In this work, the deposition of clay‐sized fine particles (d50 = 0.006 mm) and its subsequent influence on the dune‐induced hyporheic exchange are investigated. Fine sand (D50 = 0.28 mm), coarse sand (D50 = 1.7 mm), and gravel (D50 = 5.5 mm) grains were used to form homogenous model streambeds; one control ‐ no clay input, and two treatments ‐ increasing clay inputs for each grain type. The results indicate that the clogging profiles of clay‐sized sediments may not be predicted accurately using the previously proposed metric based on the relative sizes of infiltrating and substrate sediments. Further, the depositional patterns vary with the initial concentration of clay particles in the surf..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Shrivastava would like to acknowledge the Melbourne India Postgraduate Program (MIPP) for providing the scholarship to pursue a PhD at the University of Melbourne. This work is produced as one of the outputs from his PhD research. The project was also supported by the Australian Research Council (Project DP130103619).