Abstract:The debris flood created by the 5 November 2015 failure of the Fundão dam in Brazil injected a large amount of fine sediment in the Gualaxo do Norte River system. Although coarse and sand‐sized sediment injections in rivers have been studied in relative detail, little is known about river response to overloading of mud‐sized sediments (consisting of clay and silt). This paper presents an assessment of suspended sediment transport occurring in and along the Gualaxo do Norte River after the Fundão dam failure to… Show more
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