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Land use and sediment yield

When the vegetal cover is removed from a land surface, the rate of removal of the soil material, at least initially, increases rapidly. So well known is this principle that it hardly needs restatement.If attention is focused on any individual drainage basin in its natural state, large or small, and inquiry is made as to the rate of denudation, a quantitative answer is not easily obtained. The poss
Authors
Luna Bergere Leopold

Causes of winter losses among Canada geese

No abstract available.
Authors
C. M. Herman, J.H. Steenis, E.E. Wehr

Fisheries of the Great Lakes

No abstract available.
Authors
James W. Moffett

Winter losses of Canada geese at Pea Island, North Carolina

Report of research and findings to date. Topics discussed include: studies on life history and biology of gizzard worm; results of autopsies; experiments on survival and transmission of gizzard worm eggs and larvae in both field and laboratory; persistence of infections; and results of infections in geese of different ages. Cause of deaths has not been finally determined, but indications are tha
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A.B. Cowan, C. M. Herman

Analysis of mixed-layer clay mineral structures

Among the enormously abundant natural occurrences of clay minerals, many examples are encountered in which no single specific crystallization scheme extends through a single ultimate grain. The characterization of such assemblages becomes an analysis of the distribution of matter within such grains, rather than the simple identification of mineral species. It having become established that the par
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W. F. Bradley

Relation of suspended-sediment concentration to channel scour and fill

It is known that during the passage of a flood the channel of an alluvial stream scours and fills with considerable rapidity. Though such changes may be random, it seems more likely that there is a definite pattern of channel change directly related both to discharge and to the sediment load provided to the river by the drainage basin.In a study by the authors [1] an analysis was made of concurren
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Luna Bergere Leopold, Thomas Maddock

The measurement of total sediment load in alluvial streams

The measurement of the total sediment load transported by streams that flow in alluvial channels has been a perplexing problem to engineers and geologists for over a century. Until the last decade the development of equipment to measure bed load and suspended load was carried on almost independently, and without primary consideration of the fundamental laws governing the transportation of fluvial
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P.C. Benedict, D.Q. Matejka

The use of soils and paleosols for interpreting geomorphic and climatic history of arid regions

The study of modern surface soils, and ancient weathering zones, which occur either buried or as surface relicts, has contributed materially to understanding the complex events of the glacial and post-glacial period both in glaciated areas and in regions not influenced by glaciation. Most work of this kind in the United States has been done by geologists.Numerous Pleistocene geologists have noted
Authors
John Miller, Luna Bergere Leopold

Absorption characteristics of the dithizone mixed color system: A theoretical treatment

[No abstract available]
Authors
R. G. Milkey

Silicate analysis

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Authors
R.M. Fowler, W.M. Hazel, J.P. Highfill, R. E. Stevens