Morphological and sedimentological responses of streams to human impact in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains, USA

Geomorphology

Volumn 78, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 142-160

  Price, Katie ^a   Leigh, David S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Appalachians; Deforestation; Land use; Mountain stream; Sediment

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BASEFLOW; BASIN; DEFORESTATION; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAND USE; MOUNTAIN STREAM; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STREAM CHANNEL; THALWEG;

APPALACHIANS; BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS; LITTLE TENNESSEE RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33746305024     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.01.022     Document Type: Article

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