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Sediment Delivery by Ungaged Tributaries of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Sediment Delivery by Ungaged Tributaries of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon |
| Creator | Webb, Robert H.; Griffiths, Peter G. |
| Subject | Streamflow; Sediment control; Sediments (Geology) |
| Coverage | Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Grand Canyon (Ariz.); Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.); Arizona; New Mexico; Nevada; Utah; Colorado; |
| Description | Sediment supply and transport in Grand Canyon is an important management issue because of the presence and operation of Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River (U.S. Department of the Interior, 1995). Most of the fine-grained sediment that formerly entered the canyon from upstream is trapped in Lake Powell; this sediment once replenished beaches and provided substrate for the riverine ecosystem in Grand Canyon. With the closure of the dam in 1963, sources of fine-grained sediment have been... |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Contributor | Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center |
| Date | 2001 |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Webb, Robert H.; Griffiths, Peter G., Sediment Delivery by Ungaged Tributaries of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, Tucson, Arizona: U. S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 018-01 , 4 p. |
| Language | eng |
| Rights | Public Domain, Courtesy of the USGS |
| Identifier | http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/wwdl-er/id/211 |
