Sedimentary Crisis at the Global Scale 1 : Large Rivers, from Abundance to Scarcity.

Sedimentary Crisis at the Global Scale 1 : Large Rivers, from Abundance to Scarcity.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bravard, Jean-Paul
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2019.
Subjects:
River sediments.
River sediments
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-Title Page; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Torrential Crisis in the European Mountains (14th-19th Centuries); 1.1. Introductory generalities on global fluvial systems; 1.2. Manifestations of the LIA crisis in the river valleys of Western Europe; 1.2.1. Mountain crises; 1.2.2. River crises and metamorphoses of the Drac and the Isère in Grenoble; 1.2.3. Flooded piedmont plains in Switzerland; 1.2.4. Sedimentation and large works in Italy; 1.3. The difficult mastery of the Rhine delta in the modern era
  • 1.3.1. Flow distribution between river branches: an age-old battle against the elements of nature1.3.2. Returns on destabilization; 1.4. Observations on the torrentiality of the Southern Alps in the late 18th and 19th Centuries; 1.4.1. A highly degraded state of affairs in the late 18th Century; 1.4.2. Prefect Pierre-Henri Dugied's project (1819); 1.4.3. Alexandre Surell, author of the French policy for restoring mountain territories; 1.4.4. The restoration of mountain land (RTM); 1.4.5. The Southern Prealps (Drôme): what kind of balance in torrential milieus?
  • 1.5. The sediment conveyor belt, from torrents to outlets1.5.1. The forester Georges Fabre, from the Aigoual to the Gironde; 1.5.2. The Rhône river trough; 1.5.3. The redistribution of alluvia in the upper delta of the Rhône; 1.5.4. Solid contributions to the Rhône outlet and progression of the Camargue delta; 2. Continuity in European Hydraulic Science (16th-18th Centuries); 2.1. From hydraulic architecture to the fluvial system: transalpine preeminence; 2.1.1. At the roots of European science; 2.1.2. A great Italian scholar, Paolo Frisi
  • 2.2. The first naturalist approaches to the water cycle in the Seine basin2.2.1. Pierre Perrault; 2.2.2. Edme Mariotte; 2.2.3. French hydraulic science in the 18th Century; 2.2.4. Emergence of the natural state of rivers in the mid-18th Century; 2.2.5. Jean-Antoine Fabre, the great naturalist engineer of Southern Alpine torrents; 2.3. Conclusion; 3. Exploited Nature and the River's Responses to the Globe's Surface; 3.1. Mistreated soil and accelerated erosion; 3.1.1. The Huang-He (Yellow River) basin: accelerated erosion in ahighly fragile milieu; 3.1.2. Soil erosion in North America
  • 3.1.3. Accelerated erosion on the Great Russian Plains, from Belarus to the Urals3.1.4. New Zealand, "destruction on the pretext of development" [WYN 02]; 3.2. Mineral predation and river bursts; 3.2.1. Lead and zinc in the Pennines: mines threatening dairy livestock; 3.2.2. The "debris" from the gold-bearing alluvia of the Sierra Nevada (California); 3.2.3. The coal mines of the Loess Plateau, the Huang-He watershed; 3.2.4. Mountaintop mining in the Appalachians at the risk of downstream reaches; 3.3. Conclusion; 4. From Hills to the Ocean: Production, Transfer and Trapping

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