Historical agriculture and soil erosion in the upper Mississippi Valley hill country / / Stanley W. Trimble.
"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 sprea...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boca Raton : : CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group,, [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xlviii, 242 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- The Physical Region and Primeval Landscape.
- European Settlement and Changes of Land
- Use. The Systematic Effects of Historical
- Agriculture on the Physical Landscape.
- Upland Gully Erosion and its Effects. The
- Tributaries: Zone of Early, Complex Changes
- of Process and Form. The Upper Main Valleys:
- Zone of Later Complex Changes of Process
- and Form. The Lower Main Valleys: Zone of
- Perennial Sedimentation. The Great Flood
- of August 2007 and its Implications.
- Conclusions. Index.