7273

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7273
• Author: Prewitt, C. G., E. J. Wick and D. E. Snyder.
• Title: Population and Habitat Monitoring Program for the Endangered Humpback Chub ‎(
• USFW Year: 1978.
• Copyright Material: NO

Table 5. Fluvial habitat characteristics of the Ruby Canyon-Colorado River trend zone, Loma to the Colorado-
with crossing bars triangular
Substrate: cobble, mud cobble, boulders unknown
Channel Pattern: low sinuosity low sinuosity straight low sinuosity
meanders (alluvial meanders
islands)
Features:
Longitudinal Profile: see ttfrt.
Utah State Line, Colorado, August 1977.
Below Site C Gazing station below

ha
b to Gazing Station Site D through
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:
Su Horsethief Canyon below Site D Black Rocks (
Site Fj Below Black Rocks Area
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Width, Mean (m): 135 135 75 150
Max. (m): 180 180 120 300
Depth, Mean (m): 1.4 1.4 3.0 4.1
Max. (m): 2.4-3.6 13.7 1.8-2.4
Deepwater Habitat b: c (only near meander c (behind boulders, a (extensive through- d (near undercut banks)
bends; at Crow at Meander Bends) out)
Bottom)
Backwater Habitat c: c (near chute channels) d b (inside channels) c (near chute channels)
Channel Configuration: shallow, triangular shallow triangular irregular very Shallow,
Feot„c-tes : See 7i, Ie /.
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