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Management and restoration of fluvial systems with broad historical changes and human impacts / edited by L. Allan James, Sara L. Rathburn, G. Richard Whittecar.
LIBRA TC423 .M28 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Special papers (Geological Society of America) ; 451.
- Special paper ; 451
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- River engineering--United States--History.
- River engineering.
- Soil erosion--United States--History.
- Soil erosion.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on--United States--History.
- Nature.
- Rivers--Regulation--Environmental aspects--United States--History.
- Rivers.
- Fluvial geomorphology--United States--History.
- Fluvial geomorphology.
- History.
- Rivers--Regulation--Environmental aspects.
- Rivers--Regulation.
- Nature--Effect of human beings on.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 244 pages : illustrations (partly color), maps (partly color) ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : Geological Society of America, 2009.
- Contents:
- Sediment regime constraints on river restoration: an example from the Lower Missouri River / Robert B. Jacobson, Dale W. Blevins, and Chance J. Bitner
- Channel, floodplain, and wetland responses to floods and overbank sedimentation, 1846-2006, Halfway Creek Marsh, Upper Mississippi Valley, Wisconsin / Faith A. Fitzpatrick, James C. Knox, and Joseph P. Schubauer-Berigan
- Persistence of effects of high sediment loading in a salmon-bearing river, northern California / Mary Ann Madej and Vicki Ozaki
- Historical channel changes in the lower Yuba and Feather Rivers, California: long-term effects of contrasting river-management strategies / L. Allan James ... [et al.]
- Channel adjustments in northern and central Italy over the last 200 years / Nicola Surian ... [et al.]
- Bank erosion along the dam-regulated lower Roanoke River, North Carolina / Cliff R. Hupp ... [et al.]
- Planform change and stream power in the Kishwaukee River watershed, Illinois: geomorphic assessment for environmental management / Inci Güneralp and Bruce L. Rhoads
- Geomorphic evolution of the Le Sueur River, Minnesota, USA, and implications for current sediment loading / Karen B. Gran ... [et al.]
- Vanishing riverscapes: a review of historical channel change on the western Great Plains / Ellen Wohl, Dena Egenhoff, and Kelly Larkin
- Characterizing environmental flows for maintenance of river ecosystems: North Fork Cache la Poudre River, Colorado / Sara L. Rathburn ... [et al.]
- Testing the linear relationship between peak annual river discharge and drainage area using long-term USGS river gauging records / Joshua C. Galster
- Geomorphic changes resulting from floods in reconfigured gravel-bed river channels in Colorado, USA / John G. Elliott and Joseph P. Capesius
- Assessing geomorphological and ecological responses in restored step-pool systems / Anne Chin ... [et al.]
- River restoration strategies in channelized, low-gradient landscapes of West Tennessee, USA / Douglas P. Smith ... [et al.].
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813724515
- 0813724511
- OCLC:
- 265738856
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