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