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河流的沉积特征是多样的。实际上，多数河流沉积序列与经典曲流河沉积模式存在一定差别。在松辽盆地茂兴地区泉三段地层中阶梯状曲流砂坝河流较为发育，其特征为：发育２层曲流砂坝沉积，下曲流砂坝厚度较大，一般厚２－５ｍ，发育较完好的正韵律，与经典曲流砂坝沉积模式特征相似；上曲流砂坝亦为正韵律，但泥质含量偏高，层理发育较差。上、下曲流砂坝间多为突变接触，或被紫色或杂色泥质层隔开。 相似文献
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Bed forms were studied in Goodwin Creek and a laboratory flume channel. The bed sediment of the field site and flume had median diameters of 8·3 (modes of 0·4, 22·6 mm) and 1·82 mm (modes of 0·5, 5·6 mm), respectively. The laboratory and field channels had similar values of bimodal parameters, ratios of flow depth to median bed material diameter, and ratios of shear stress to critical shear stress and were judged to be comparable in the transport of bed load sediment and the resulting bed forms. Three groupings of bed forms from the laboratory flume experiments (ripple-like bed forms, bed load sheets, low-relief bed waves) were identified using the height and period of the bed forms. For the range of flow depths and discharges investigated in the flume, bed forms became higher and longer with increasing bed shear stress. Bed forms from Goodwin Creek were similar to those from the flume with comparable ratios between bed form length, height, and flow depth. The bed forms in the flume provide a positive link between rate and size fluctuations measured in the field and the bed forms. The smaller bed forms identified were sediment starved and are not considered to be dunes, while the largest bed forms in which all of the bed material sizes were mobilized in the field and laboratory were judged to be dunes. 相似文献
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黄河下游辫状、弯曲和顺直河段间沉积动力特征比较 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
黄河下游沿程出现了辫状、弯曲和顺直河型段,河道平面形态的差异势必受到不同的沉积动力特征的制约。本研究根据对收集到的有关实测资料的统计和计算,对可以表征河道沉积动力特征的相关指标进行了量化分析,发现不同河型段间的沉积动力特征存在明显差别。河道比降在辫状河段最大,介于0.2‰~0.14‰之间;弯曲河段的次之,介于0.14‰~0.10‰之间;顺直河段的小于0.10‰。平滩流量时的流速在辫状河段的较大,不同年份间的变幅较大;弯曲河段的次之,不同年份间的变幅较小;顺直河段的最小,不同年份间的变幅不大,并向下游显著减小。单位河长能耗率在辫状河段最大,弯曲河段次之,顺直河段的最小,其间的比值为2.31∶〖KG-*2〗1.35∶1。单位面积能耗率在辫状河段最小,弯曲河段最大,顺直河段次之,其间的比值为0.52∶〖KG-*2〗1.18∶〖KG-*2〗1。河床沉积物粒度较细,并普遍缺失推移质组分,中值粒度在辫状河段、弯曲河段和顺直河段分别为3.0、3.2、3.67;河床沉积物的分选性也依次变好。受制于上述相关沉积动力特性,河床沉积速率在不同河型段有明显差别:中大流量时,辫状河段的最小,弯曲河段的最大,顺直河段的次之;在小流量时,三个河型段的河床沉积速率非常接近,但沿程略有减小。另外,辫状河段河床沉积速率明显依赖于流量的变化,且随流量的增大而明显减小。 相似文献
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Biotic forcing on river meandering is a highly debated topic in sedimentology. Vegetation is assumed to hold a vital role on channel stability and sinuosity, for example through bank stabilization and pedogenic production of cohesive clays. However, statistically solid and causal relationships between vegetation density and river sinuosity remain largely untested in natural systems. This study investigates physical and biotic forcings on channel sinuosity in the Bonneville Basin of Utah (USA), an endorheic depression flanked by active fluvial networks (‘washes’) that display diverse vegetation density and channel‐planform style. By means of remote sensing and ground‐data collection, 58 washes are considered, 0·1 to 90 km2 in surface area and drained by trunk channels <45 m wide and <1·2 m deep. Each wash is composed of a catchment basin connected downstream to an aggradational and distributive channel network. Statistically solid regressions highlight the primary roles played by base level and catchment size on fluvial morphogenesis. In contrast, no correlation is found between vegetation density and other parameters such as trunk‐channel width or surface area of the largest meander in a wash. Similarly, no statistical correlation exists between vegetation density and meander size or sinuosity index. Rather, larger and more sinuous meanders are invariably associated with lower vegetation density. These results are corroborated by field evidence showing that sparse vegetation promotes flow disturbance, channel branching and bar braiding instead of stabilizing sediment surfaces. Thus, river meandering is attributed to cohesion offered by mud retention within the endorheic basin, as well as discharge and stream‐power modulation along bifurcating and low‐gradient channel reaches. Hence, this work demonstrates how meandering‐channel patterns may arise from entirely physical forcings in the absence of vegetation. 相似文献
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Effects of sheet flow rate and slope gradient on sediment load 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Sheet erosion is known as one of the most important forms of erosion, particularly in agricultural land. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of flow rate and slope gradient on runoff and sediment discharges in two different soils. Experiments were conducted using a tilting flume facility with the test area of 0.2?×?1.0 m. Overall, 24 experiments on two soils (clay loam and sandy clay loam textures) including six flow rates (75, 100, 125, 150, 175, and 200 ml/s) and two slope gradients (1.5 and 2 %) were performed. The selected flow rates and flume slopes were generated to simulate sheet erosion. The results showed that for both soils and slopes, unit flow discharge (q) and sediment concentration increased with increasing flow rate; however, the effect of slope gradient on flow discharge depends on soil type. In addition, sandy clay loam exhibited higher values of q and sediment concentration and consequently, it showed greater amounts of sediment load. At the start of event, sediment concentration was high but it decreased to approach a steady state. In addition, the time needed to reach a steady state condition was shorter for sandy clay loam than that for clay loam soil and in lower flow rates than higher flow rates. For each soil and slope, there was a direct relationship between sediment load and flow rate. The result implied that the effect of slope gradient on sediment load was almost greater in sandy clay loam soil than clay loam soil. Moreover, the differences between sediment loads of two soils are enlarged at slope 2 %. 相似文献
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Alpa Sridhar L.S. Chamyal 《Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. Geologists' Association》2010,121(2):195-202
The rivers of western India are monsoon dominated and have been so throughout the late Quaternary. Sediment accumulation in these river basins has been controlled by climatic and tectonic changes over a time span from the Late Pleistocene to the recent. The lithofacies assemblages associated with the various sediment archives in the Narmada basin range from the boulders of the alluvial fans to overbank fines on the alluvial plains. Estimates, based on clast size, of stream power and competence, bed shear stress and discharge reveal that hydrological conditions during the Late Pleistocene (∼90 ka) were comparable to the present day. The size of the transported clasts and the thickness of the accumulated sediment indicate the influence of basin subsidence rather than an increase in discharge. Discharge estimates based on sedimentary structures preserved in the alluvial-plain facies suggest that the channel had a persistent flow, with a low width-depth ratio and large meander wavelength. The hydrological changes during the Holocene are more pronounced where the early Holocene is marked by a high-intensity hydrological regime that induced erosion and incision of the earlier sediments. The mid-Holocene stream channel was less sinuous and had a higher width-depth ratio and a higher meander amplitude in comparison with the present-day channel. Palaeo-fluvial reconstructions based on the sediment archives in the alluvial reach of the river basin are important tools in understanding the long-term hydrological changes and the intricate fluvial architecture preserved in the Narmada River basin ensures scope for detailed studies to identify phases of weak and enhanced hydrological regimes. 相似文献
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Donald Garofalo 《Estuaries and Coasts》1980,3(4):258-270
Average relative stream channel migration rates of .21 meters per year (.72 feet per year) for saline tidal wetland stream channels, and .32 meters per year (1.04 feet per year) for freshwater tidal wetland channels were calculated for a 32 year period (1940 to 1972) using photogrammetric techniques. Saline wetland stream channels averaged higher indices of sinuosity, i.e., the ratio of total channel length to linear downstream distance (1.95), when compared with sinuosities of freshwater tidal channels (1.46). The difference is attributed to differences in vegetation types and consequent soil holding capacity between saline and freshwater tidal wetland environments. Saline channels become entrenched because the banks are supported by dense root systems, while freshwater tidal channels flow through a more homogenous substrate and behave much like channels which cross mud-flats in the intertidal zone. Higher average meander amplitudes (one-half the peak to trough distance of a given meander wave) for saline channels (171 meters) versus lower amplitudes for freshwater channels (114 meters) suggest that meander loops for saline channels are determined primarily by the erosional characteristics of stream banks and by other local factors rather than by hydrodynamic factors such as flow velocity or discharge. It has been stated that meander migration features do not occur in homogenous soil materials (Leopold, et al. 1964); the tendency of saline channels to form these features is attributed to differential erosion caused by variations in root system density. Conversely, the morphology of freshwater tidal channels is influenced by hydrodynamic factors including discharge, and is due to the existence of more homogenous materials, i.e., muddy soils devoid of extensive root systems. An analysis of ebb and flood discharge data arrived at for each tidal channel using existing tidal current velocity and upland discharge records supports the fact that relatively greater erosive forces occur in salt marsh than in fresh tidal marsh areas. A poor statistical correlation between rates of stream channel migration and hydraulic stream flow data such as velocity and discharge must be accepted with caution due to the method of approximating tidal discharge values. The correlation suggests that under normal tidal conditions both saline and freshwater tidal channels migrate little, if any, and thus represent an apparently balanced relatively low energy system. For this reason it is believed that most stream channel migration in both saline and freshwater wetlands occurs as a result of increased forces due to storms. 相似文献
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针对黄河上游干、支流交汇区形成的沙坝淤堵事件,利用野外观测资料,分析了支流高含沙洪水特性及交汇区沙坝淤堵特点,探讨了汇流比(支流流量与干流流量之比)、支流洪水水量、支流洪水沙量等因素对沙坝淤堵形成的影响;根据动量原理建立了交汇区形成沙坝淤堵的判别关系,结合黄河上游干、支流洪水输移特性,得出了基于汇流比与支流洪水水量关系及支流洪水沙量与支流洪水水量关系的沙坝淤堵判别条件。由此,可根据汇流比、支流洪水水量及沙量判断交汇区能否形成沙坝淤堵,可为暴雨洪水期黄河上游交汇区形成沙坝淤堵灾害的预报及防治提供参考。 相似文献
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Joanna C. Curran 《Sedimentary Geology》2007,202(3):572-580
It is generally accepted that a gravel-bed river will aggrade if the supply of sediment to the river is increased. In a series of flume experiments using constant discharge and gravel feed rate, sand feed rates were increased to 6.1 times that of gravel. The slope of the bed decreased with increasing sand supply, indicating that the increased sediment load could be transported at the same rate due to a decrease in shear stresses. These results extend previous experiments to a wider range of boundary conditions. A recent surface transport model is used to predict the changes in bed composition and transport using the same sediment supply composition and feed rates as in the laboratory experiments. This model reasonably predicts a decrease in the reference shear stresses of the sand and gravel fractions as the sand supply is increased. An increase in sand supply can increase the mobility of gravel fractions in the stream bed, which can lead to bed degradation and preferential evacuation of these sediments from the river. 相似文献
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结合遥感影像、野外调查和形态统计,深入分析斜槽裁弯现象,将其划分为切滩冲刷、串沟冲刷和主流顶冲3种模式。切滩模式发生于洪水期间主流水流动力轴线偏向凸滩后,形成漫流水流冲刷,极可能在边滩形成新的斜槽。切滩裁弯的形态统计表明,弯道曲率半径与平均河宽之比约2.92,分流角约54.8°。串沟模式是前期洪水漫过河湾内侧洪泛平原,漫滩水流冲刷形成若干串沟,后续洪水沿串沟继续冲刷,串沟逐步横向展宽和向下游侵蚀,直至形成新的河槽。主流顶冲模式是水流顶冲河湾内侧河岸,形成湾状缺口,后续洪水持续顶冲湾状缺口,直至上下游水流贯通,形成斜槽裁弯。 相似文献
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小浪底水库运行后,坝下游分组悬沙输移特点发生改变,不同河段冲淤过程有所差别。基于1999—2018年坝下游实测水沙资料及固定淤积断面地形数据,分析汛期分组悬沙输移的沿程调整特点,建立分组悬沙输移及河床边界条件双重影响下不同河段河床累计冲淤量的计算关系。分析结果表明：(1)汛期各组沙输沙率远小于蓄水前,且中沙输沙率降幅最大,在各水文断面平均降幅为85%;沿程上细沙输沙率基本不恢复,而中沙和粗沙恢复距离分别到利津及艾山。(2)坝下游河床持续冲刷,各河段河床组成均发生不同程度的粗化;在拦沙后期(2007—2018年),游荡段和过渡段床沙中细沙和中沙占比不足5%,对悬沙几乎无补给作用,而弯曲段床沙对中沙仍有一定的补给能力。(3)下游各河段以冲刷下切为主,但调整幅度不同,故对水流的约束能力有所差异。建立了各河段累计冲淤量与前期河相系数及进口断面分组来沙系数的经验关系,并采用2019年下游水沙数据对公式进行了初步验证,公式能合理反映断面形态与分组悬沙输移对河床累计冲淤过程的影响。 相似文献
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在坡面土壤侵蚀输沙计算中,可选用的输沙能力模式较多,但这些模式多运用于恒定输沙,在非恒定输沙中运用不多。建立了坡面土壤侵蚀非恒定输沙数学模型,模型中的输沙能力运用水流切应力、水流功率、单位水流功率3种模式,对模型过程采用有限差分格式离散求解。根据实测水沙资料进行模型参数率定,运用3种输沙能力模式于不同降雨强度、不同坡度的非恒定坡面输沙过程中。结果表明:在坡面非恒定输沙计算中,不同输沙能力模式对计算结果有明显影响,在降雨强度较小时,单位水流功率模式结果较其他两个模式为好,而在雨强较大时,切应力模式计算结果较好。 相似文献
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The ability of mud aggregates to form depositional bedforms is of considerable sedimentological importance for explaining the geomorphology of the Channel Country of central Australia as well as for understanding the depositional environment of certain argillaceous fluvial sequences in the rock record. The sediment transport and bedform development of mud aggregates from the floodplain of Cooper Creek, central Australia, was examined in a laboratory flume over a range of flow conditions. The aggregates were found to be clay-rich (>60% clay), nonsaline (<0·02%), fine sand-sized (mean d50=0·13 mm), low density (2300 kg m?3) and water-stable. Three wetting rates were applied to the sediment in the laboratory prior to wet sieving to replicate various field conditions and results in three mean aggregate sizes. Immersion wetting (no tension) represents inundation of the sediment by overland flow and results in aggregates of 0·13 mm. Tension wetting at 20 and 50 mm corresponds to high- and low-intensity rainfall and results in mean d50 sizes of 0·75 and 0·70 mm, respectively. Immersion wetting is the most applicable wetting mode for hydraulic transport of aggregated sediment on the Cooper Creek floodplain. Considerable variability in sediment transport rates in the field could result from differences in pre-wetting of the aggregated sediment. The dominance of smectite in the clay mineralogy of the sediment is an important factor in the development of the aggregates; disaggregated sediment reaggregated in a laboratory after 2–3 wetting/drying cycles. In flume experiments, bedforms of aggregated mud ranging from lower-regime plane beds to upper-regime antidunes were observed. The aggregates moved predominantly as bedload with measured peak bedload concentrations being high compared with other flume studies. The highly mobile nature of this sediment in the field is due to the ready entrainment of low-density aggregates in the form of self-mulching vertisols across extensive floodplains. The occurrence of low-sinuosity braid-like channels on this extensive low-gradient semi-arid floodplain can be attributed to: (a) the passage of floodwaters across a floodplain with steeper gradients than adjacent more sinuous anastomosing channels; (b) the highly mobile nature of the low-density sediment aggregates; (c) the ability of the aggregates to be transported as bedload; and (d) their durable nature during transport. 相似文献
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Point bar and floodplain formation of the meandering Beatton River, northeastern British Columbia, Canada 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
GERALD C. NANSON 《Sedimentology》1980,27(1):3-29
This study examines the morphology, sedimentology and genesis of the point bars and floodplain of the Beatton River. The formation of point bars occurs in distinct stages. An initial point bar platform composed mainly of coarse sediment is formed adjacent to the convex bank of a migrating meander bend, and is the base on which develops a single scroll bar of fine traction and suspended load. With continued sedimentation, the scroll bar grows, eventually supporting vegetation and becoming a floodplain ridge. Scroll bars form with greatest size and frequency in rapidly migrating bends, and the shape of the meander bend appears to determine both the location of the initial bar deposit, and its direction of growth up or downstream. Approximately one-half of the floodplain sediment is derived from suspended load, and the initiation of a scroll bar appears to be due to excessive deposition of suspended load in a zone of flow separation over a point bar platform. The critical flow condition for the initiation of a scroll bar does not occur with the same recurrence interval on different shaped meander bends, however, the average recurrence interval within the study reach is approximately every 30 years. Sedimentation rates on point bars and on the floodplain indicate two relatively distinct stages of floodplain alluviation. The most rapid is for surfaces less than 50 years old, although sediment accumulation still persists on surfaces up to 250 years in age. Although frequently flooded, surfaces older than this accumulate very little sediment. Despite 2–3 m of overbank deposition, the amplitude of floodplain ridges is maintained by secondary currents which sweep sediment from the swales towards the ridge crests. 相似文献
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阶梯-深潭结构是山区河流中典型的高效消能结构,以消耗水能、增加阻力的方式提升沟道稳定性。通过水槽试验模拟沟道冲刷,探究阶梯-深潭结构稳定沟道的机制及效果,为山区河流消能减灾和稳定河床提供科学和技术参考。结果表明：阶梯-深潭结构能有效消耗水流能量、抑制泥沙输移和提升水流阻力,从而有效控制河床下切和边坡破坏;在阶梯-深潭结构的作用下,沟道的Darcy-Weisbach系数约增加为无结构条件下的4倍,时均输沙率降低20%～66%,但随着流量的增大,阶梯-深潭稳定沟道的效果降低;阶梯高度与长度比(0.1)相同时,结构提升沟道稳定性的效果接近。阶梯-深潭结构自身的稳定是其稳定沟道的关键条件,实际应用过程中需防止结构发生逐级破坏。 相似文献
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JOSÉ ANTONIO CONSTANTINE THOMAS DUNNE HERVÉ PIÉGAY G. MATHIAS KONDOLF 《Sedimentology》2010,57(2):389-407
Differences in the nature and quantity of sediment filling oxbow lakes have significant implications for the evolution of meandering rivers and the development of floodplains, influencing rates of meander migration and the valley width over which migration takes place. In an effort to identify the controls on the alluviation of oxbow lakes by coarse bed material, this study examined the sedimentary records stored within oxbow lakes of the Sacramento River of California, USA, and found that the volume of gravel in storage correlated negatively with the diversion angle separating flow between the river channel and the entrance into each lake. A method was devised for estimating the original channel bathymetry of the studied lakes and for modelling the hydraulic and sediment‐transport effects of the diversion angle within channels recently abandoned by meander cut‐off. The diversion angle determines the width of a flow separation within the abandoned‐channel entrance, reducing the discharge diverted from the river channel and thus limiting the ability of the abandoned channel to transport bed material. Aggradation rates are faster within entrances to abandoned channels with high diversion angles, resulting in the rapid isolation of lakes that store only a small volume of coarse‐grained sediment. Aggradation rates are slower within channel entrances where diversion angles are low, resulting in the slow transitioning of such channels into oxbow lakes with a larger and more extensive accumulation of coarse‐grained sediment. These findings compare well with observations in other natural settings and the mechanism which is described for the control of the diversion may explain why some oxbow lakes remain as open‐water environments for centuries, whereas others are filled completely within decades of cut‐off. 相似文献
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The influence of shallow landslides on sediment supply: A flume-based investigation using sandy soil 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The impact of rainfall-induced shallow landslides on hillslope sediment discharge is not well understood. This paper reports experimental measurements of sediment discharge after water-induced shallow landslides are triggered on sandy soil in a flume under simulated rainfall. The principal aim of the research was to investigate how varying soil depth affects the location and occurrence of shallow slope failures, as well as how it affects sediment yields downslope. Four experiments were conducted using the same sandy soil and a 30° and 10° compound slope configuration under average rainfall intensity of 50 mm h− 1 for up to 390 min. Soil depths were set to 200, 300, 400 and 500 mm. Engineering and geotechnical properties of the soil were examined. Sediment discharge and runoff were collected from the flume outlet at 15 minute intervals. Changes in the soil slope profiles after landslides and soil physical properties resulted from soil armouring, under continuous rainfall were also recorded. Results showed that sediment yields at the flume outlet, before landslides occurred, were very low and limited to the finer soil particles as would be expected for a sandy soil. However subsequent variations in sediment discharge were strongly related to failure events and their proximity to the outlet. Sediment yield was also affected by the original soil depth; the greater the depth, the higher the sediment yields. Post-failure reductions in sediment discharge were observed and attributed to post-failure slope stabilization under continuing rainfall and extensive soil armouring near the flume outlet. The results provide a clear linkage between landslides and sediment discharge due to hydrological processes occurring in the hillslope. This knowledge is being used to develop a model to predict sediment discharges from hillslopes following shallow landslide events. 相似文献
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The floodplain along a 75-km segment of the Brazos River, traversing the Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas, has a complex late Quaternary history. From 18,000 to 8500 yr B.P., the Brazos River was a competent meandering stream that migrated from one side of the floodplain to the other, creating a thick layer of coarse-grained lateral accretion deposits. After 8500 yr B.P., the hydrologic regime of the Brazos River changed. The river became an underfit meandering stream that repeatedly became confined within narrow and unstable meander belts that would occasionally avulse. Avulsion occurred four times; first at 8100 yr B.P., then at 2500 yr B.P., again around 500 yr B.P., and finally around 300 yr B.P. The depositional regime on the floodplain also changed after 8500 yr B.P., with floodplain construction dominated by vertical accretion. Most vertical accretion occurred from 8100 to 4200 yr B.P. and from 2500 to 1250 yr B.P. Two major and three minor periods of soil formation are documented in the floodplain sequence. The two most developed soils formed from 4200 to 2500 yr B.P. and from around 1250 to 500 yr B.P. These changes on the floodplain appear to be the result not of a single factor, but of the complex interplay among changes in climate, sediment yield, and intrinsic floodplain variables over time. 相似文献
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黄河下游不同河型河道的水沙效应及演变趋势分析 总被引：3，自引：2，他引：1
黄河下游沿程出现的辫状河流（游荡型河流）、弯曲河流（弯曲型河流）、顺直河流（顺直微弯型河流）的转化现象引人关注,并有不同方面的专门研究。本研究针对以往研究的不足,通过对不同河型段的水沙演变、断面形态对流量的响应、河道断面演变、河床沉积速率及能耗率特征等方面,系统分析了不同河型段河道的水沙效应。认为黄河下游沿程出现的三类河型是由河道比降小、河床质细、洪枯水交替、粗泥沙输入少及大堤限制等因素起主导作用。其中顺直河流的出现是人工大堤的胁迫性产物。随着近年来水沙的阶段性减小,顺直河流在大堤的挟持下得以维持;弯曲河段河道的侧向摆动依然、宽度略微变窄,河床加积速率最大,但不会导致整个下游河道比降发生明显变化;辫状河段能耗率相对较大,冲淤强烈,滩槽更替频繁,但随着流量的减小,其能耗率明显减小,其比邻弯曲河流段的河道会逐渐曲流化,表现为弯曲河段的适度上延,但延伸有限。各类治理措施中,以中上游修建水库和淤地坝是最有效的,可拦截大量粗泥沙,从而降低下游河床的加积速率,以延缓悬河的发展。当然,针对决口险情的大堤建设是必要的,但要与不同河型段的河道稳定性相适应。 相似文献
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The ability to predict bedform migration in rivers is critical for estimating bed material load, yet there is no relation for predicting bedform migration (downstream translation) that covers the full range of conditions under which subcritical bedforms develop. Here, the relation between bedform migration rates and transport stage is explored using a field and several flume data sets. Transport stage is defined as the non‐dimensional Shields stress divided by its value at the threshold for sediment entrainment. Statistically significant positive correlations between both ripple and dune migration rates and transport stage are found. Stratification of the data by the flow depth to grain‐size ratio improved the amount of variability in migration rates that was explained by transport stage to ca 70%. As transport stage increases for a given depth to grain‐size ratio, migration rates increase. For a given transport stage, the migration rate increases as the flow depth to grain‐size ratio gets smaller. In coarser sediment, bedforms move faster than in finer sediment at the same transport stage. Normalization of dune migration rates by the settling velocity of bed sediment partially collapses the data. Given the large amount of variability that arises from combining data sets from different sources, using different equipment, the partial collapse is remarkable and warrants further testing in the laboratory and field. 相似文献