Decreased rates of alluvial sediment storage in the Coon Creek Basin, Wisconsin, 1975-93

Science

Volumn 285, Issue 5431, 1999, Pages 1244-1246

  Trimble, Stanley W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; SEDIMENTATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EROSION; GEOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SOIL; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033588190     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5431.1244     Document Type: Article

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36. This study was established in 1938 by the late S. C Happ and the late V. E. McKelvey, and I am grateful for their gracious assistance. The study was supported by the U.S. Geological Survey, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the National Geographic Society, the NSF, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, the University of California at Los Angeles Faculty Senate, and New Badger Enterprises. R. H. Meade designed Fig. 1. The report was greatly improved through critical reviews by M. Church, W. W. Emmett, A. Mendel, R. Shreve, L. Smith, and M. G. Wolman, but any errors remain mine. I also thank E. Brick and the many others who assisted me in the field.