Large dams and alluvial rivers in the Anthropocene: The impacts of the Garrison and Oahe Dams on the Upper Missouri River

Anthropocene

Volumn 2, Issue , 2013, Pages 51-64

  Skalak, Katherine J ^a   Benthem, Adam J ^a   Schenk, Edward R ^a   Hupp, Cliff R ^a   Galloway, Joel M ^a   Nustad, Rochelle A ^a   Wiche, Gregg J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropocene streams; Dam impacts; Dam interaction; Fluvial geomorphology; Reservoir impacts

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; FLOOD CONTROL; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; POWER GENERATION; RIPARIAN ZONE; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

GARRISON DAM; LAKE OAHE; MISSOURI RIVER; NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890115307     PISSN: 22133054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ancene.2013.10.002     Document Type: Article

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