Historical Agriculture and Soil Erosion in the Upper Mississippi Valley Hill Country

• Tác giả: Stanley W Trimble
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1466555754
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 631.45 Soil erosion
• Thông tin xuất bản: Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis, 2013
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (290 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 181987
• Chủ đề: 1. Agriculture & farming; 2. Conservation of the environment; 3. Earth sciences; 4. Environmental science, engineering & technology

Tóm tắt

"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 sedi