" With the Midwest under water, America had a chance to see how effectively it had "improved" its rivers. We've straightened and dredged them, revetted and rerouted them, made massive efforts to control them, yet our actions have been less than successful. Too often, physical changes made to a river conflict with natural processes, resulting in--rather than alleviating--damage. Applying available knowledge on how rivers form and act cou ..."
"This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work ..."
"He also helped to found the National Geographic Society.This collection of papers was originally published as a U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper in 1969 to honor Powell on the 100th anniversary of his exploration of the Colorado ..."
Water, Rivers and Creeks(1st Edition) by LunaBergereLeopold Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1997 by University Science Books ISBN-13: 978-0-935702-98-9, ISBN: 0-935702-98-9
"Concerned with water resources throughout his career, Luna B. Leopold has at last brought together over forty years of experience to produce Water, Rivers and Creeks, a nontechnical primer on hydrology and water resources. As an expert engineer, meteorologist, environmentalist and geologist, few individuals could provide the breadth of coverage with the insightful brevity that characterize this introduction to water. By integrating the ..."
A View of the River by LunaBergereLeopold Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 1994 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-93732-1, ISBN: 0-674-93732-5
" With the Midwest under water, America had a chance to see how effectively it had "improved" its rivers. We've straightened and dredged them, revetted and rerouted them, made massive efforts to control them, yet our actions have been less than successful. Too often, physical changes made to a river conflict with natural processes, resulting in--rather than alleviating--damage. Applying available knowledge on how rivers form and act coul ..."
"Discusses the nature and uses of water, the effect of water in absorbing energy and moderating the climate, erosion, the importance of the water supply, water treatment and pollution."
Water(Illustrated) A Primer (A Series of books in geology) by LunaBergereLeopold Hardcover, 172 Pages, Published 1974 by W H Freeman & Co (Sd) ISBN-13: 978-0-7167-0264-1, ISBN: 0-7167-0264-9
"An expansion of the work, A primer on water, published in 1960, prepared by the author and W. B. Langbein."
Water(Illustrated) A Primer by LunaBergereLeopold Paperback, 172 Pages, Published 1974 by W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7167-0263-4, ISBN: 0-7167-0263-0
"This text is an expansion of a manuscript that I wrote some years ago, with the assistance of Walter B. Langbein, for the United States Geological Survey. It was entitled, A Primer on Water. That brief pamphlet, although it was widely read, did not deal with some of the topics that presently are important in teaching the elements of hydrology to students who are interested in a variety of environmental problems. Most books on hydrology ..."
"Allen C. Gellis, William W. Emmett, Luna Bergere Leopold ... increased base
level did not extend beyond 30.5 m upstream, and channel slope remained at
0.033 (Leopold and Bull, 1979, p. ... New Mexico Water-Data Reports Rio Santa
Cruz at Santa Cruz Reservoir 1929–41 238 354 Brown, 1945 Gallinas River at
Storrie Reservoir near 1918–4() 386 144 Brown, 1945 Las Vegas Jemez Creek
at San Ysidro 1936–4 | 2,212 254 Brown, 1945 Rio (Arroyo) ..."
"This excellent text is a pioneering work in the study of landform development under processes associated with running water. Its primary emphasis is on subjects that were the focus of the authors' studies in both field and laboratory. Part I deals with the process of change in the evolving landscape. Part II explores process and form, and Part III, the effects of time.In Part I, the relation of geomorphology to field problems is analyze ..."
"In 1872 Congress designated Yellowstone National Park as the world's first national park; nineteen years later, the land adjacent to Yellowstone became America's first national forest reserve. Since that time, the entire Yellowstone region has been the scene of major battles over resource management--debates between those who would use the land for extraction of national resources (mining, lumbering, and hunting, for example) and those ..."
"A record of the work, travels and adventures of one of the last of the great British explorers, a man who served in both world wars and carved out a special niche in science through his studies of desert sands. Ralph Alger Bagnold was born in 1896 into a military family and educated as an engineer. Posted to Egypt in 1926, he was one of a group of officers who adapted Model T Fords to desert travel and in 1932 made the first east-west c ..."