Pacific Southwest

Title: An improved bedload sampler

Author: Lewis, Jack

Date: 1991

Source: In: Fan, S. and Y.H. Kuo, eds., Fifth Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference Proceedings, 18-21 March 1991, Las Vegas, NV. 6-1 to 6-8.

Description: Abstract - Improvements upon the Birkbeck bedload sampler (Reid et al., 1980) were implemented in the North Fork of Caspar Creek, a gravel-bedded stream draining 383 ha in northern coastal California. Bedload sediment falls through a slotted plate covering a .125-m3 steel box set within a formed concrete pit in the streambed. In the original Birkbeck design, a water-filled pressure pillow beneath the box responded to the weight of accumulating sediment and the overlying water column.

Keywords: PSW4351, Caspar Creek, Birbeck bedload sampler, sediment, data logger, bedload transport rates

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Lewis, Jack  1991.  An improved bedload sampler.   In: Fan, S. and Y.H. Kuo, eds., Fifth Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference Proceedings, 18-21 March 1991, Las Vegas, NV. 6-1 to 6-8..