Channel, floodplain, and wetland responses to floods and overbank sedimentation, 1846-2006, Halfway Creek Marsh, Upper Mississippi Valley, Wisconsin

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 451, Issue , 2009, Pages 23-42

  Fitzpatrick, Faith A ^a   Knox, James C ^b   Schubauer Berigan, Joseph P ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; AGRICULTURE; ANTENNAS; EMBANKMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; EROSION; FLOODS; LAND USE; LEVEES; MORPHOLOGY; RESTORATION; RIVERS; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; CROSS-SECTION MORPHOLOGY; OVERBANK SEDIMENTATION; U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON;

WETLANDS;

CHANNEL FLOW; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; OVERBANK FLOW; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTATION; SOIL EROSION; WETLAND;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MISSISSIPPI VALLEY; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 74949111540     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2009.2451(02)     Document Type: Article

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