From agricultural intensification to conservation: Sediment transport in the Raccoon River, Iowa, 1916-2009

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1911-1923

  Jones, Christopher S ^a   Schilling, Keith E ^b  

^a Iowa Soybean Association   (United States)

^b Iowa Geological Survey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; EXTREME EVENTS; FLUVIAL SEDIMENT; MONITORING PERIODS; MUNICIPAL WATER SUPPLIES; RIVER WATERSHEDS; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; SEDIMENT LOADS; SEDIMENT MOBILIZATION; SEDIMENT REDUCTION; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS; TSS CONCENTRATION;

AGRICULTURE; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; MONITORING; MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TREATMENT; WATERSHEDS;

RIVER POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LAND USE; PRECIPITATION; RACCOON RIVER; RIVER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TURBIDITY; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IOWA; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; RIVERS; TIME FACTORS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84055217864     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: 15372537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2010.0507     Document Type: Article

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