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Bedload monitoring under conditions of ultra-high suspended sediment concentrations

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The bedload response of the Moulin Ravine, a small alluvial system draining a very active Mediterranean badlands landscape entrenched into Jurassic black marls of the Southern French Prealps, has been inveS tigated using an automatic Reid bedload slot sampler. This site is known for its exceptional sediment transport conditions thanks to a long-term monitoring program that started in the late 1980s, revealing a mean annual bedload yield of 2810 t km-2yr -1, and suspended sediment concentrations (SSCs) during flow events commonly reaching 100 g L-1 . With the deployment of the slot sampler, it has been possible to record instantaneous bedload fluxes during 10 s time increments and to investigate bedload response under flow conditions with ultra-high SSCs. Bedload records cover 4 flashy summer flow events induced by heavy convective storms including a 20-yr return period event. Due to the very high SSC conditions these events challenge bedload monitoring. Even if slot sampling has been recognized as insensitive to fine sediments (silts and clays), it has never been tested in such exceptional muddy flow conditions. The bedload slot sampler performed well in such conditions. A flow-invariant proportion of fines 45 (15–20%) was captured in the slot sampler during flows. This proportion is equivalent to its content in the active bedload layer during summer flows, suggesting that fines enter the slot embedded with coarse particles. Instantaneous bedload fluxes recorded in the Moulin are amongst the highest hithert48 reported values worldwide, providing evidence of the exceptional sediment transport conditions of marly alpine badlands. The dimensionless entrainment threshold is one order of magnitude higher than com-50 monly reported for gravel-bed rivers, likely reflecting the cohesion effect of fines intruded in the channel 51 surface and subsurface.
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hal-03004285 , version 1 (13-11-2020)

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Frédéric Liébault, Hugo Jantzi, S Klotz, J B Laronne, Alain Recking. Bedload monitoring under conditions of ultra-high suspended sediment concentrations. Journal of Hydrology, 2016, 540, pp.947 - 958. ⟨10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.07.014⟩. ⟨hal-03004285⟩

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