Historical agriculture and soil erosion in the upper Mississippi Valley hill country
""This thought-provoking book demonstrates how processes of landscape transformation, usually illustrated only in simplified or idealized form, play out over time in real, complex landscapes. Trimble illustrates how a simple landscape disturbance, generated in this case by agriculture, can spread an astonishing variety of altered hydrologic and sedimentation processes throughout a drainage basin. The changes have spatial and temporal patterns forced on them by the distinctive topographic structure of drainage basins. ""Through painstaking field surveys, comparative photographic records, carefu
eBook, English, 2013
Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, 2013