Understanding how sediment supply from lateral source influences on sediment distribution along a channel reach is a key issue for preliminary surveying of sediment disaster. Sediment pulse formed by storm�]induced sediment supply from lateral source was investigated for four years after 2003 storm at Kita�]iwanai�]ninosawa Creek located in a headwater catchment of Tokachi River, Eastern Hokkaido, Japan. Cross�]section measuring and sediment sampling were conducted on site, and the relationship between longitudinal changes in sediment volume transformed to a sediment mass curve and grain size distribution was examined. In this paper, the ratio of sediment delivery magnitude (M) against quasi�]stream power (Ps) was employed as an efficiency index (M/PS) of sediment transfer. The result is as follows: 1) Although storm�]induced sediment pulse formed by quite lots of sediment input is not identified by deference in grain size, sediment pulses gradually reproduced by low�]water flow after storm event have characteristics of grain size distribution. 2) Magnitude of sediment delivery with large materials (�„75mm) decreases downstream because of their short travel distance even by flooding. However, selective transport of smaller materials by low�]water flow increases the magnitude of sediment delivery. 3) Comparing sediment mass curves, the wave peak by large�]magnitude flooding is higher than that by small�]magnitude flooding, and the wave length by large�]magnitude flooding is shorter than that by small�]magnitude flooding. 5) The efficiency index (M/PS) of sediment transfer yielded by storm�]induced sediment supply is quite high, but it gradually decreases with time after the initial sediment supply.


Key words�Finitial sediment pulse and its evolution, particle size sorting, the mobility of the coarse particles, quasi�]stream�]power, magnitude of the sediment delivery