Floods And Accelerated Erosion In Northern Utah PDF Download

Excerpt from Floods and Accelerated Erosion in Northern Utah The three most plausible among the possible causes of the recent accelerated erosion and floods would doubtless be conceded to be diastrophism, as it might influence the gradient of the stream, climatic change, involving greater or more intensive rainfall, and destruction of the plant cover, with concomitant losses of surface litter, reduction of humus content, modification Of the physical properties of the surface soil, and a consequent increase in run off and decrease 1n moisture absorption on the watershed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.