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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Floods
  name:
    name part: Hoyt, W. G. (William Glenn)
    name part: 1886-1971
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Langbein, Walter B. (Walter Basil)
    name part: 1907-1982
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    place:
      place term: Princeton, N.J
    publisher: Princeton University Press
    date issued: 1955
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 469 pages : illustrations, maps, tables ; 24 cm
  table of contents: FLOOD PROBLEMS -- WHY WE HAVE FLOOD PROBLEMS: Flood plains -- Rainstorms -- Thunderstorms -- Hurricanes -- Maximum rainfalls -- Snow -- Ice jams -- LIFE HISTORY OF A FLOOD: On the land -- In the channel -- Analyzing floods -- Where floods occur -- When floods occur -- Flood magnitude -- Flood frequency -- How floods are measured -- Maximum flood discharge -- DAMAGE FROM FLOODS -- MAN’S ADAPTATION TO FLOODS: Zoning -- Insurance -- Forecasting -- Relief and rehabilitation -- PROTECTION THROUGH THE CONTROL OF WATER: Dikes and levees -- Channel improvements -- Diversion of flood waters -- Reservoirs -- Land-use practices -- FLOODS AND THE CONSTITUTION -- OUR PRESENT FLOOD-CONTROL POLICY: In the channel -- On the land -- BASIN PROBLEMS, PROJECTS, AND PLANS: New England -- The middle Atlantic region -- The South Atiantic and eastern Gulf streams -- The Ohio River basin (exclusive of the Tennessee River basin) -- The Tennessee River basin -- The Great Lakes—St. Lawrence River region -- The upper Mississippi River basin -- The lower Mississippi basin and its alluvial valley -- Tributaries to the lower Mississippi from the southwest -- The Missouri River basin -- The Red River of the North -- The western Gulf of Mexico -- The Pacific Southwest -- The Pacific Northwest -- FLOOD HISTORY: Before 1900 -- Since 1900 -- Floods, by streams.
  note: by William G. Hoyt and Walter B. Langbein.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-443).
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Floods
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Flood control
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Floods
  subject:
    topic: Flood control
  subject:
    topic: Inondations
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Inondations
    topic: Maîtrise
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: 38.89 hydrology: other
  subject:
    topic: Flood control
  subject:
    topic: Floods
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Floods
  subject:
    topic: Inondations
    geographic: États-Unis
  subject:
    topic: Inondations
    topic: Maîtrise
  classification: GB1215 .H68
  classification: 551.573
  classification: 38.89
  classification: 551.489097
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Floods
    name:
      name part: Hoyt, William Glenn, 1886-
    origin info:
      publisher: Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1955
    identifier: (OCoLC)656170953
  identifier: 54006075
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 811024
    record change date: 20240319133631.0
    record identifier: in00000624000
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng