Historical Agriculture and Soil Erosion in the Upper Mississippi Valley Hill Country

• Hoofdauteur: Trimble, Stanley W. (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Taylor & Francis 2013
• Onderwerpen: Conservation of the environment; Earth sciences; Agriculture & farming; Environmental science, engineering & technology; Geology - Earth Sciences; Soil Science; Ecology - Environment Studies; ENVIRO; AGRICULTURE; SCI-TECH; GEO; ENVIRONMENTALSCIENCE; STM; bank; coon; county; creek; high; lower; main; terrace; vernon; winona
• Online toegang: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Samenvatting

"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 sedi

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1 electronic resource (290 p.)

ISBN

b13039

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Open Access