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Author : L. Allan James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Hydraulic mining
ISBN : WISC:89015513351
Author : P.J. Beyer
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 044452231X
Dams profoundly impact the geomorphology of rivers by altering the natural patterns of water, sediment and energy flow in rivers. These changes have a largely negative impact on aquatic and riparian ecosystems upstream and downstream of the dam. Natural dams also impact river geomorphology, although with positive and negative repercussions for aquatic and riparian organisms. In 2002, the 33rd Binghamton Geomorphology Symposium convened under the theme "Dams and Morphology," and featured invited papers and contributed posters on topics of natural dams, artificial dams, and dam removal. Fourteen of these papers have been included in this volume.
Author : Committee on American River Flood Frequencies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Division on Earth and Life Studies,National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999-05-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309538930
Sacramento, California, has grown literally at the edge of the Sacramento and American Rivers and for 150 years has struggled to protect itself from periodic floods by employing structural and land management measures. Much of the population lives behind levees, and most of the city's downtown business and government area is vulnerable to flooding. A major flood in 1986 served as impetus for efforts by federal, state, and local entities to identify an acceptable and feasible set of measures to increase Sacramento's level of safety from American River floods. Numerous options were identified in 1991 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in a report known as the American River Watershed Investigation. Due to the controversial nature of many of the alternatives identified in that report, study participants were not able to reach consensus on any of the flood control options. In response, the Congress directed the USACE to reevaluate available flood control options and, at the same time, asked the USACE to engage the National Research Council (NRC) as an independent advisor on these difficult studies. In 1995 NRC's Committee on Flood Control Alternatives in the American River Basin issued Flood Risk Management and the American River Basin: An Evaluation. This report outlined an approach for improving the selection of a flood risk reduction strategy from the many available.
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Committee on American River Flood Frequencies
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999-05-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309064330
Sacramento, California, has grown literally at the edge of the Sacramento and American Rivers and for 150 years has struggled to protect itself from periodic floods by employing structural and land management measures. Much of the population lives behind levees, and most of the city's downtown business and government area is vulnerable to flooding. A major flood in 1986 served as impetus for efforts by federal, state, and local entities to identify an acceptable and feasible set of measures to increase Sacramento's level of safety from American River floods. Numerous options were identified in 1991 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in a report known as the American River Watershed Investigation. Due to the controversial nature of many of the alternatives identified in that report, study participants were not able to reach consensus on any of the flood control options. In response, the Congress directed the USACE to reevaluate available flood control options and, at the same time, asked the USACE to engage the National Research Council (NRC) as an independent advisor on these difficult studies. In 1995 NRC's Committee on Flood Control Alternatives in the American River Basin issued Flood Risk Management and the American River Basin: An Evaluation. This report outlined an approach for improving the selection of a flood risk reduction strategy from the many available.
Author : Richard White
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393243079
Winner of the 2021 California Book Award (Californiana category) A brilliant California history, in word and image, from an award-winning historian and a documentary photographer. “This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” This indelible quote from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance applies especially well to California, where legend has so thoroughly become fact that it is visible in everyday landscapes. Our foremost historian of the West, Richard White, never content to “print the legend,” collaborates here with his son, a talented photographer, in excavating the layers of legend built into California’s landscapes. Together they expose the bedrock of the past, and the history they uncover is astonishing. Jesse White’s evocative photographs illustrate the sites of Richard’s historical investigations. A vista of Drakes Estero conjures the darkly amusing story of the Drake Navigators Guild and its dubious efforts to establish an Anglo-Saxon heritage for California. The restored Spanish missions of Los Angeles frame another origin story in which California’s native inhabitants, civilized through contact with friars, gift their territories to white settlers. But the history is not so placid. A quiet riverside park in the Tulare Lake Basin belies scenes of horror from when settlers in the 1850s transformed native homelands into American property. Near the lake bed stands a small marker commemorating the Mussel Slough massacre, the culmination of a violent struggle over land titles between local farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in the 1870s. Tulare is today a fertile agricultural county, but its population is poor and unhealthy. The California Dream lives elsewhere. The lake itself disappeared when tributary rivers were rerouted to deliver government-subsidized water to big agriculture and cities. But climate change ensures that it will be back—the only question is when.
Author : T.P. Burt,A.S. Goudie,H.A. Viles
Publisher : Geological Society of London Memoirs
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786205643
Co-published with British Society for Geomorphology This volume is the fifth in the definitive series, The History of the Study of Landforms or the Development of Geomorphology. Volume 1 (1964) dealt with contributions to the field up to 1890, Volume 2 (1973) with the concepts and contributions of William Morris Davis and Volume 3 (1991) covered historical and regional themes during the ‘classic’ period of geomorphology (1890–1950). Volume 4 (2008) concentrated on studies of geomorphological processes and Quaternary geomorphology between 1890 and 1965; by the end of this period, process-based studies had become dominant. Volume 5 builds on this platform, covering in detail the revolutionary changes in approach that characterized the study of geomorphology in the second half of the twentieth century. It is divided into three sections: the first deals with changes in approach and method; the second with changes in ideas and the broader scientific context within which geomorphology is studied; and the final section details advances in research on processes and landforms. The volume’s objective is to describe and analyse many of the developments that provide a foundation for the rich and varied subject matter of twenty-first century geomorphology.
Author : L. Allan James,Sara L. Rathburn,George Richard Whittecar
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813724515
Author : Katherine Marie Laddish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American River, North Fork (Calif.)
ISBN : UCAL:X57022
Author : Jean-Paul Bravard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781786303837
The Earth’s oceans are currently undergoing unprecedented changes: rivers have suffered a severe reduction in their sediment transport, and as a result, sediment input to the oceans has dropped lower than ever before. These inputs have varied over millennia as a result of both natural occurrences and human actions, such as the building of dams and the extraction of materials from riverbeds. Sedimentary Crisis at the Global Scale 1 examines how river basins have been affected by the sedimentary crises of various historical epochs. By studying global balances, it provides insights into the profound disruption of the solid transport of fluvial bodies. The book also explores studies of various rivers, from the Amazon, which remains relatively unaffected, to dying rivers such as the Colorado and the Nile.
Author : Susan B. Marriott,Jan Alexander,Geological Society of London
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Floodplains
ISBN : 1862390509
Very Good,No Highlights or Markup,all pages are intact.
Author : Ellen E. Wohl
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780300127461
Ellen Wohl offers a survey of the history & present condition of river systems across the US. After describing the biological chemical & physical aspects of the functioning of rivers, she discusses the changes as the result of development & federal management, & examines rehabilitation projects.
Author : Jeffrey F. Mount
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520916937
California Rivers and Streams provides a clear and informative overview of the physical and biological processes that shape California's rivers and watersheds. Jeffrey Mount introduces relevant basic principles of hydrology and geomorphology and applies them to an understanding of the differences in character of the state's many rivers. He then builds on this foundation by evaluating the impact on waterways of different land use practices—logging, mining, agriculture, flood control, urbanization, and water supply development. Water may be one of California's most valuable resources, but it is far from being one we control. In spite of channels, levees, lines and dams, the state's rivers still frequently flood, with devastating results. Almost all the rivers in California are dammed or diverted; with the booming population, there will be pressure for more intervention. Mount argues that Californians know little about how their rivers work and, more importantly, how and why land-use practices impact rivers. The forceful reconfiguration and redistribution of the rivers has already brought the state to a critical crossroads. California Rivers and Streams forces us to reevaluate our use of the state's rivers and offers a foundation for participating in the heated debates about their future.
Author : Paul F. Hudson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521768603
Examines interrelations between flood management, flooding, and environmental change, for advanced students, researchers, and practitioners.
Author : G. Mathias Kondolf,Hervé Piégay
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470868324
In recent years there has been a marked increase in funding andemployment in river restoration. Methods in Fluvial Geomorphologyprovides an integrated approach to the interdisciplinary nature ofthe subject and offers guidance for researchers and professionalson the tools available to answer questions on river management onvery difference scales. * Each chapter is organised to cover everything from generalconcepts to specific techniques * Topics covered include evolution of methods, guiding concepts, aframework for deciding when to apply specific tools, advantages andlimitation of the tools, sources of data, equipment and suppliesneeded, and a summary table * Provides the professional with a useful handbook covering alltools used in fluvial geomorphology * Also provides valuable information on the advantages andlimitations of the tools * All chapters include case studies to give examples of theapplications of the tools discussed
Author : Matthew Booker
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520355569
San Francisco Bay is the largest and most productive estuary on the Pacific Coast of North America. It is also home to the oldest and densest urban settlements in the American West. Focusing on human inhabitation of the Bay since Ohlone times, Down by the Bay reveals the ongoing role of nature in shaping that history. From birds to oyster pirates, from gold miners to farmers, from salt ponds to ports, this is the first history of the San Francisco Bay and Delta as both a human and natural landscape. It offers invaluable context for current discussions over the best management and use of the Bay in the face of sea level rise.