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Historical agriculture and soil erosion in the upper Mississippi Valley hill country / Stanley W. Trimble.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Online access: OAPEN Open Research Library (ORL) | Online access: OAPEN DOAB Directory of Open Access BooksPublication details: Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, 2013.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781466555754
  • 1466555750
  • 9781138071612
  • 1138071617
  • 9780429097812
  • 0429097816
  • 9781306135597
  • 1306135591
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Historical agriculture and soil erosion in the upper Mississippi Valley hill country.DDC classification:
  • 631.4/5 23
LOC classification:
  • S624.D75 T75 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: ""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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

""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.

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