Historical agriculture and soil erosion in the upper Mississippi Valley hill country /
""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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton :
Taylor & Francis,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781466555754 1466555750 9781138071612 1138071617 9780429097812 0429097816 9781306135597 1306135591 |