California Rivers and Streams The Conflict Between Fluvial Process and Land Use

Name: California Rivers and Streams The Conflict Between Fluvial Process and Land Use
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ISBN: 9780520202504

ISBN-10: 0520202503

ISBN-13: 9780520202504

Edition: 1996

Authors: Jeffrey F. Mount

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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…

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/8/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



How Rivers Work



Introduction to the Rivers of California: The First 4 Billion Years



Water in Motion



A River at Work: Sediment Entrainment, Transport, and Deposition



The Shape of a River



Origins of River Discharge



Sediment Supply



River Network and Profile



Climate and the Rivers of California



Tectonics and Geology of California's Rivers



Learning the Lessons: Land Use and the Rivers of California



Rivers of California: The Last 200 Years



Mining and the Rivers of California



Logging California's Watersheds



Food Production and the Rivers of California



A Primer on Flood Frequency: How Much and How Often?



The Urbanization of California's Rivers



The Damming of California's Rivers



The Future: Changing Climate, Changing Rivers