Impacts of Vegetation Clearance on Channel Change: Historical Perspective

Treatise on Geomorphology

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages 14-27

  Harden, C P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggradation; Braided channels; Channel change; Deforestation; Delta progradation; Human impacts; Paired watersheds; Postsettlement alluvium; Riparian vegetation; Vegetation clearance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879798617     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-374739-6.00340-7     Document Type: Chapter

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