Requiem for the Santa Cruz : an environmental history of an Arizona river /

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"Over the millennia, the drainageway we now call the Santa Cruz River has seen many ebbs, flows, and floods. Throughout its long history, the river has meandered. It has flowed on the surface. It has carved deep fissures, and it has widened and narrowed. As readers of Requiem for the Santa Cruz...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Webb, Robert H. (Autor), Betancourt, Julio L. (Autor), Johnson, R. Roy (Raymond Roy), 1932- (Autor), Turner, R. M. (Raymond M.) (Autor)
Otros Autores: Fontana, Bernard L. (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2014]
Temas:
Natural history > Santa Cruz River (Ariz. and Mexico)
Stream ecology > Santa Cruz River (Ariz. and Mexico)
Sciences naturelles > Santa Cruz (Ariz. et Mexique : Rivière)
NATURE > Ecology.
NATURE > General.
Natural history
Stream ecology
Santa Cruz River (Ariz. and Mexico)
Santa Cruz (Ariz. et Mexique : Rivière)
North America > Santa Cruz River
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of illustrations
  • Foreword / by Bernard L. Fontana
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • 1. The problem of riverine change
  • 2. Characteristics of a desert river
  • 3. Causes of arroyo downcutting
  • 4. Perennial flow and discontinuous arroyos, 1691-1872
  • 5. Land use, climate, and floods, 1873-1888
  • 6. Arroyo downcutting and widening, 1889-1915
  • 7. Water development and the Great Mesquite Forest, 1916-1942
  • 8. The city and the arroyo, 1943-1975
  • 9. Arroyo management in the time of floods, 1976-1995
  • 10. Channel filling and river restoration efforts, 1996-2012
  • 11. Summary of the past and some possible futures
  • Appendixes
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.

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