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River planet : rivers from deep time to the modern crisis /
A comprehensive introduction to the epic geological history of the world's rivers, from the first drop of rain on the Earth to the modern environmental crisis.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Dunedin Academic Press Ltd,
[2021]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Rivers and geological time
- The first drop of rain on the nascent Earth
- How plants bent and split rivers
- Breaking Pangea: the ancestral rivers of Africa
- Hot and cold: the river histories of Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica
- Young and restless: the evolving rivers of Asia
- The conflicted rivers of Europe
- The reversing rivers of South America
- Canyons and cataracts in North America
- A Canadian Amazon
- Frozen out: northern rivers sculpted by ice
- Megafloods and Noah’s Ark
- Rivers drowned by the sea
- From stone age streams to river civilizations
- The lost Saraswati River of the Indian Subcontinent
- Confucian engineers on the Yellow River of China
- Dead and wounded rivers
- Collapsing and closing dams
- Between the dams: an elegy for the Saskatchewan River
- Without spoiling the land: rivers and agriculture
- London’s buried rivers
- Restored rivers.