ASCE will be sunsetting the Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) in the coming months. We encourage you to start using the ASCE Library to perform content searches. In the ASCE Library, you can save your search results as well as receive email content alerts when new content relevant to your area of interest is published. Try it out today at https://ascelibrary.org.

 

Bed Sediments and Bed Forms of the Lower Mississippi River

by B. S. Queen, Colorado State Univ, Ft. Collins, United States,
C. F. Nordin, Colorado State Univ, Ft. Collins, United States,
R. E. Rentschler, Colorado State Univ, Ft. Collins, United States,



Document Type: Proceeding Paper

Part of: Hydraulic Engineering

Abstract:

Approximately 500 bed material samples were collected from the thalweg of the Lower Mississippi River. At each sample location, a sonic record of the bed was obtained. From the appearance of the sonic records, the bed material could usually be predicted as being one of four major categories: (1) fine to coarse gravel, or mud (composed of deposited silts, clays, and very fine sand); (2) sand; (3) in situ clay outcrops; and (4) debris covered beds.

Subject Headings: Bed materials | Soil analysis | River and stream beds | Bed forms | Sediment | Rivers and streams | Clays | Mississippi River | Mississippi | United States

Services: Buy this book/Buy this article

 

Return to search