Historical agriculture and soil erosion in the upper Mississippi Valley hill country / Stanley W. Trimble
データ種別 | 電子ブック |
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出版情報 | Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis , 2013 |
本文言語 | 英語 |
大きさ | 1 online resource |
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資料種別 | 機械可読データファイル |
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内容注記 | 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 Chapter 8 The great flood of August 2007 and its implicationsConclusions; References; Glossary; Appendix: Unit Conversion Factors; Back Cover |
一般注記 | ""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 Open Access Includes bibliographical references and index Print version record |
著者標目 | *Trimble, Stanley Wayne. |
件 名 | LCSH:Electronic books BSH:Electronic books FREE:History LCSH:Soil erosion -- 19th century. -- Driftless Area -- History 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Soil erosion -- 20th century. -- Driftless Area -- History 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Agriculture -- 19th century. -- Driftless Area -- Environmental aspects -- History 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Agriculture -- 20th century. -- Driftless Area -- Environmental aspects -- History 全ての件名で検索 BISACSH:TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Soil Science 全ての件名で検索 FREE:Agriculture -- Environmental aspects 全ての件名で検索 FREE:Soil erosion FREE:United States -- Driftless Area 全ての件名で検索 FREE:1800-1999 |
分 類 | DC23:631.4/5 |
書誌ID | ED00001262 |
ISBN | 9781466555754 |