Author: Illinois State Water SurveyPublisher:
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Category : Sediment transport
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Sediment Loads of Illinois Streams and Rivers
Author: Illinois State Water SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sediment transport
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Sedimentation in the Illinois River Valley and Backwater Lakes
Author: Nani G. BhowmikPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sediment transport
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Benchmark Sediment Monitoring Program for Illinois Streams
Author: Richard L. AllgirePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : River sediments
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
River Dynamics
Author: Bruce L. RhoadsPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108173780
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Rivers are important agents of change that shape the Earth's surface and evolve through time in response to fluctuations in climate and other environmental conditions. They are fundamental in landscape development, and essential for water supply, irrigation, and transportation. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the geomorphological processes that shape rivers and that produce change in the form of rivers. It explores how the dynamics of rivers are being affected by anthropogenic change, including climate change, dam construction, and modification of rivers for flood control and land drainage. It discusses how concern about environmental degradation of rivers has led to the emergence of management strategies to restore and naturalize these systems, and how river management techniques work best when coordinated with the natural dynamics of rivers. This textbook provides an excellent resource for students, researchers, and professionals in fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, river science, and environmental policy.
Techniques for Studying the Physical Effects of Commercial Navigation Traffic on Aquatic Habitats
Author: Nani G. BhowmikPublisher:
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Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Notes on Sedimentation Activities
Author: Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author: A World of Rivers
Author: Ellen WohlPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226904806
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Far from being the serene, natural streams of yore, modern rivers have been diverted, dammed, dumped in, and dried up, all in efforts to harness their power for human needs. But these rivers have also undergone environmental change. The old adage says you can’t step in the same river twice, and Ellen Wohl would agree—natural and synthetic change are so rapid on the world’s great waterways that rivers are transforming and disappearing right before our eyes. A World of Rivers explores the confluence of human and environmental change on ten of the great rivers of the world. Ranging from the Murray-Darling in Australia and the Yellow River in China to Central Europe’s Danube and the United States’ Mississippi, the book journeys down the most important rivers in all corners of the globe. Wohl shows us how pollution, such as in the Ganges and in the Ob of Siberia, has affected biodiversity in the water. But rivers are also resilient, and Wohl stresses the importance of conservation and restoration to help reverse the effects of human carelessness and hubris. What all these diverse rivers share is a critical role in shaping surrounding landscapes and biological communities, and Wohl’s book ultimately makes a strong case for the need to steward positive change in the world’s great rivers.
Occurrence and Transport of Agricultural Chemicals in the Mississippi River Basin, July Through August 1993
Author: Charles A. PerryPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural chemicals
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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