USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2010–5065Channel Change and Bed-Material Transport in the Lower Chetco River, Oregon

Scientific Investigations Report 2010–5065

Channel Change and Bed-Material Transport in the Lower Chetco River, Oregon

Figure 21. Examples of bar evolution to flood-plain and developed areas between 1939 and 2005, Chetco River, Oregon. (A) Gravel bar near flood-plain kilometer (FPkm) 3 (Estuary Reach) evolving to developed area. (B) Dynamic bars between flood-plain kilometers 7 and 9 (North Fork and Mill Creek reaches). (C) Example of vegetation colonization on upper bar surface near flood-plain kilometer 9 (Mill Creek Reach).

Revised July 2012

First posted May 26, 2010

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