WSP04845

• File Number: 8271.300
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program - General Information and Publications-Reports
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 4/1/1982
• Author: R Johnson S Schumm
• Title: Geomorphic and Lithologic Controls of Diffuse-Source Salinity -- Grand Valley - Western Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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GEOMORPHOLOGY

5.1 Introduction
5.2 Badlands
5.2.1 Badland topography.
5.2.2 Channels. . . . .. '.
5.2.3 Tributary basin morphology.
5.2.4 Hillslopes. . . . . . .
5.2.5 Soils . . . . . . . . .
5.2.6 Geomorphic stability of the
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5.3 Pediments . . . . . . . . . .
5.3.1 Introduction . . . . .
5. 3.2 Theory of pediment origin
5. 3.3 Model of pediment origin .
5.3.4 Geomorphic stability of the
5.4 Alluvial Valley Floors
5.4.1 Introduction. . . .. .
5.4.2 Alluviation . . . . . .
5.4.3 Geomorphic stability of the alluvial
valley floors
5.5 Summary

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION. . . . .

1. 1 Statement of the Problem.
1. 2 Objectives. . .

PREVIOUS INVESTIGATIONS

DESCRIPTION OF THE FIELD AREA.

3. 1 Location. . . . . . . .
3.2 Geology . . . . . . . .
3.3 Climate and Vegetation
3.4 Land Use

METHODS. . . . .

4.1 Geomorphology.
4. 2 Salinity .

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SALINITY . . . .

'6.1 Introduction
6.2 Salinity Analysis.
6.3 Conclusions

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