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Twentieth century agricultural drainage creates more erosive rivers
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Twentieth century agricultural drainage creates more erosive rivers |
| Creator | Belmont, Patrick |
| Description | Rivers in watersheds dominated by agriculture throughout the US are impaired by excess sediment, a significant portion of which comes from non-field, near-channel sources. Both land-use and climate have been implicated in altering river flows and thereby increasing stream-channel erosion and sediment loading. In the wetland-rich landscapes of the upper Mississippi basin, 20th century crop conversions have led to an intensification of artificial drainage, which is now a critical component of... |
| Date | 2014-01-01T08:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Identifier | http://works.bepress.com/patrick_belmont/64 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hyp.9738/full |
| Source | Patrick Belmont |
| Publisher | SelectedWorks |
| Subject | Earth Sciences |
