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The Colorado River in Grand Canyon; how fast does it flow?
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Colorado River in Grand Canyon; how fast does it flow? |
| Creator | Graf, Julia B. |
| Subject | Water -- Air entrainment; Hydraulics; Water temperature; |
| Coverage | Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico); Grand Canyon (Ariz.); Powell, Lake (Utah and Ariz.); Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.); Utah; Colorado; Arizona; Nevada; |
| Description | Opening the jet tubes at Glen Canyon Dam on March 26, 1996, released from Lake Powell a controlled flood of water that traveled down the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. How fast did the water move? How long did it take for water to reach a particular point along the river? The answers to these questions are important because the speed of river water affects the amount of physical and chemical changes, such as warming by sunlight, that the water will undergo as it moves downstream. Also, very... |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Date | 1997 |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Graf, Julia B., The Colorado River in Grand Canyon; how fast does it flow?, Tucson, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 168-97, 4 p. |
| Language | eng |
| Rights | Public Domain, Courtesy of the USGS |
| Identifier | http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/ref/collection/wwdl-er/id/214 |
