River Planet : : Rivers from Deep Time to the Modern Crisis.
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.
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Gibling, Martin. River Planet : Rivers from Deep Time to the Modern Crisis. 1st ed. Edinburgh : Dunedin Academic Press, 2021. Ã2021. 1 online resource (241 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier 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. 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. Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. Electronic books. Print version: Gibling, Martin River Planet Edinburgh : Dunedin Academic Press,c2021 9781780460994 ProQuest (Firm) https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/oeawat/detail.action?docID=6646665 Click to View |
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Gibling, Martin. River Planet : Rivers from Deep Time to the Modern Crisis. 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. |
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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. |
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