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Stream, Riparian, and Wetland Ecology - Class material, Volume 1 of 2
Date
9/1/1987
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Professor Windell
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<br />3 <br /> <br />In practice, the eutern and venern basins ban been divided into <br />twenty-one principal drainsle basies for ..nase..at.." .oa1torinl Purpos.." <br />(Figure 2). Coastal and interior basins are identifhd Aod their areas and <br />average runoff in inches and billions of gallons per clay are givel1 in Table <br />1. All of the twenty-one drainage basins have strateltically placed stre.. <br />gaging stations that are monitored by the United Stlltu GeologiCal Survey. <br />Over 7,000 federal stations and 3,000 non-federal stations provid.l a wealth <br />of data 00 annual discharge of all of the major rivertl. These dal:a are <br />published in the water-supply papera of the Geological Survey and are <br />located at all libraries that function as npos1toriell for govermoent <br />documeots. <br /> <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />_0 ___ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />, <br />\ <br /> <br />...... c-.... "'" a-_., <br />".rUt IIfIOIfAlATfON CViTl.ltk <br />S--(l.s.C4IIf..~s.,.., <br />........... ,...,...., CAwr ".. <br /> <br />. - <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />~' <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />ripi 2. MIIp of the COIlIten1not1a Dattd Sut.. ahovinc the 21 principal drdup b..ltg, <br />.,. peroa1Nloa fr_: D. V. lUller, J. J. Ceralbey. and I. S. Collte.. 196). VUeK' At1.. of the <br />UaUltd Scat.., lute 'au. AMut the Mat-lOll'. w.tar l.eour~t1.. Water IllloraltiOD Calt.ar. be. <br />Pon Vaeh1ractoa. L.I.. '.T. <br /> <br />Flood PlaiOll <br /> <br />Some of the most characteristic featuns of the t1;<enty-one principal <br />drainale basins are the valleys, stream channels, and :flood plains. The' <br />flood plain u a strip of relatively level land border:Lns a atreSll wblch is <br />overflowed at ti... of high' water. Flood plains are d'!p08itional features <br />of streaa valleys. Sediment is temporarily stored io I~he flood pl,dn en <br />route through the valley. Under equilibria c:ondit1oIll1 averaged o'~er . r <br />period of yeara, net inflow of s.di_nt equals net outJFlov (Leopold et al. <br />1964). Typical flood plains include a number of distbguishing . <br />
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