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Identifying erosion areas along the Danube on the basis of granulometric and hydrologic parameters

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  • 1. National Institute of Marine Geology and GeoEcology – GeoEcoMar, Constanta Branch, 304 Mamaia Blvd, 900581, Constanta, Romania

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Abstract. This paper aims to localize areas along the Danube where erosion is predominant. It starts with an analysis of previous evaluations of riverbed changes in time, suggesting methods of investigation based on interpreting textural and hydrologic parameters. Making use of grain size analysis performed on 140 sediment samples from the Danube riverbed, the skewness/kurtosis diagram is applied identifying the main points in which erosion or deposition are predominant. Given the lack of data, the method of identifying points where erosion is predominant on the basis of the sediment transport capacity/suspension concentration ratio is only applied for demonstration purposes.

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