The controlled flood in Grand Canyon
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Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Geophysical monograph,
110 |
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Online Access: |
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1029/GM110 |
Item Description: | Three folded maps in pocket. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (ix, 367 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: |
9781118664711 (electronic bk.) 111866471X (electronic bk.) |
Index Number: | GB1399 |
CLC: | TV122-532 |
Contents: |
Background. Downstream effects of Glenn Canyon Dam on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon : a review / Origins of the 1996 controlled flood in Grand Canyon -- Sediment transport and geomorphology. Reworking of aggraded debris fans / Entrainment and transport of Cobbles and boulders from debris fans / Linkage between grain-size evolution and sediment depletion during Colorado river floods / Flow and suspended-sediment transport in the Colorado River near National Canyon / Topographic evolution of sand bars / effect of sand concentration on depositional rate, magnitude, and location in the Colorado River below the Little Colorado River / Changes in the number and size of campsites as determined by inventories and measurement / Topographic and bathymetric changes at thirty-three long-term study sites / Variation in the magnitude and style of deposition and erosion in three long (8-12 km) reaches as determined by photographic analysis / Riverine and aquatic biology. Photosynthetic and respiratory processes : an open-stream approach / Periphyton metabolism : a chamber approach / Mineralization of Riparian vegetation buried in the 1996 controlled flood / Changes in number, sediment composition, and benthic invertebrates of backwaters / Lotic community responses in the Lees Ferry reach / Response of Benthos and organic drift to a controlled flood / Fish abundance, distribution, and habitat use / Flannelmouth suckers : movement in the Glen Canyon reach and spawning in the Paria River / Movement, habitat use, and diet of adult Humpback Chub / Riparian vegetation responses : snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and vice versa / Management implications and societal costs. Summary and synthesis of geomorphic studies conducted during the 1996 controlled flood in Grand Canyon / Biological implications of the 1996 controlled flood / economic cost of the 1996 controlled flood / Flood releases from dams as management tools : interactions between science and management / |