A GIS model to calculate sediment yields from a small rural watershed, Old Woman Creek, Erie and Huron Counties, Ohio

Ohio Journal of Science

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 44-52

  Evans, James E ^a   Seamon, D Erich ^a,b  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b N Kentucky Area Planning Commission   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GIS; MODEL; RUSLE; SEDIMENT YIELD; SOIL EROSION;

USA, OHIO, OLD WOMAN CREEK;

POMACANTHUS MACULOSUS;

EID: 0031402498     PISSN: 00300950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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