Format:
Online-Ressource (pages cm)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
1466555750
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9781466555754
Content:
""This thought-provoking book demonstrates how processes of landscape transformation, usually illustrated only in simplified or idealized form, play out over time in real, complex landscapes. Trimble illustrates how a simple landscape disturbance, generated in this case by agriculture, can spread an astonishing variety of altered hydrologic and sedimentation processes throughout a drainage basin. The changes have spatial and temporal patterns forced on them by the distinctive topographic structure of drainage basins. ""Through painstaking field surveys, comparative photographic records, carefu
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Front Cover; Contents; Figures; Foreword; Preface; Biography; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 - The physical region and primeval landscape; Chapter 2 - European settlement and changes of land use; Chapter 3 - The systematic effects of historical agriculture on the physical landscape; Chapter 4 - Upland gully erosion and its effects; Chapter 5 - The tributaries: Zone of early, complex changes of process and form; Chapter 6 - The upper main valleys: Zone of later complex changes of process and form; Chapter 7 - The lower main valleys: Zone of perennial sedimentation
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Chapter 8 - The great flood of August 2007 and its implicationsConclusions; References; Glossary; Appendix: Unit Conversion Factors; Back Cover
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1466555742
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781466555747
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Historical agriculture and soil erosion in the upper Mississippi Valley hill country
Language:
English
Keywords:
History
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1201/b13039
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