Author: Harold Christy SchwalenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Ground Water Supplies of Santa Cruz Valley of Southern Arizona Between Rillito Station and the International Boundary
Author: Harold Christy SchwalenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Ground Water Supplies of the Santa Cruz Valley of Southern Arizona
Author: Harold Christy SchwalenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258759384
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Water In The Santa Cruz Valley. Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 288.
Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
Author: Simulation of Ground-water Flow and Potential Land Subsidence, Upper Santa Cruz Basin, Arizona
Author: R. T. HansonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater flow
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Water-resources Investigations Report
Author: Ground-water Resources of the Santa Cruz Basin, Arizona
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Amendments of 1992
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Requiem for the Santa Cruz
Author: Robert H. WebbPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816547505
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In prehistoric times, the Santa Cruz River in what is now southern Arizona saw many ebbs, flows, and floods. It flowed on the surface, meandered across the floodplain, and occasionally carved deep channels or arroyos into valley fill. Groundwater was never far from the surface, in places outcropping to feed marshlands or ciénegas. In these wet places, arroyos would heal quickly as the river channel revegetated, the thriving vegetation trapped sediment, and the channel refilled. As readers of Requiem for the Santa Cruz learn, these aridland geomorphic processes also took place in the valley as Tucson grew from mud-walled village to modern metropolis, with one exception: historical water development and channel changes proceeded hand in glove, each taking turns reacting to the other, eventually lowering the water table and killing a unique habitat that can no longer recover or be restored. Authored by an esteemed group of scientists, Requiem for the Santa Cruz thoroughly documents this river—the premier example of historic arroyo cutting during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when large floodflows cut down through unconsolidated valley fill to form deep channels in the major valleys of the American Southwest. Each chapter provides a unique opportunity to chronicle the arroyo legacy, evaluate its causes, and consider its aftermath. Using more than a collective century of observations and collections, the authors reconstruct the circumstances of the river’s entrenchment and the groundwater mining that ultimately killed the marshlands, a veritable mesquite forest, and a birdwatcher's paradise. Today, communities everywhere face this conundrum: do we manage ephemeral rivers through urban areas for flood control, or do we attempt to restore them to some previous state of perennial naturalness? Requiem for the Santa Cruz carefully explores the legacies of channel change, groundwater depletion, flood control, and nascent attempts at river restoration to give a long-term perspective on management of rivers in arid lands. Tied together by authors who have committed their life’s work to the study of aridland rivers, this book offers a touching and scientifically grounded requiem for the Santa Cruz and every southwestern river.
Geological Survey Bulletin
Author: Arid Lands
Author: Charles HutchinsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429722036
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1457
Book Description
The international conference Arid Lands: Today and Tomorrow drew more than 400 participants from over 3 S countries to Tucson, Arizona, for one week in October of 19 8 S. The diversity of presenters, disciplines and subject matters addressed contributed to an interesting and informative conference. The papers presented in this volume represent the efforts of scientists and other individuals who, through their various disciplines, are addressing the problems of and opportunities presented by the arid lands of the world. A committee of five scientists reviewed for substance. relevance and their contribution to the conference the 284 abstracts that were submitted. They selected 146 for presentation at the conference and of those papers presented, 128 were received for inclusion in the proceedings.