River Planet : : Rivers from Deep Time to the Modern Crisis.

• Author: Gibling, Martin.
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Dunedin Academic Press,, 2021.; Ã2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (241 pages)

A comprehensive introduction to the epic geological history of the world's rivers, from the first drop of rain on the Earth to the modern environmental crisis.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Sourced Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Part 1: Rivers in Deep Time -- 1 Rivers and Geological Time -- 2 The First Drop of Rain on the Nascent Earth -- 3 How Plants Bent and Split Rivers -- Part 2: Our Modern Rivers -- 4 Breaking Pangea: The Ancestral Rivers of Africa -- 5 Hot and Cold: The River Histories of Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica -- 6 Young and Restless: The Evolving Rivers of Asia -- 7 The Conflicted Rivers of Europe -- 8 The Reversing Rivers of South America -- 9 Canyons and Cataracts in North America -- 10 A Canadian Amazon -- Part 3: How the Ice Age Changed Rivers -- 11 Frozen Out: Northern Rivers Sculpted by Ice -- 12 Megafloods and Noah's Ark -- 13 Rivers Drowned by the Sea -- Part 4: Humans and Rivers -- 14 From Stone Age Streams to River Civilizations -- 15 The Lost Saraswati River of the Indian Subcontinent -- 16 Confucian Engineers on the Yellow River of China -- Part 5: Engineered Rivers -- 17 Dead and Wounded Rivers -- 18 Collapsing and Closing Dams -- 19 Between the Dams: An Elegy for the Saskatchewan River -- 20 Without Spoiling the Land: Rivers and Agriculture -- 21 London's Buried Rivers -- 22 Restored Rivers -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Endnotes -- Index.