Land use and sediment yield
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Abstract
When the vegetal cover is removed from a land surface, the rate of removal of the soil material, at least initially, increases rapidly. So well known is this principle that it hardly needs restatement.
If attention is focused on any individual drainage basin in its natural state, large or small, and inquiry is made as to the rate of denudation, a quantitative answer is not easily obtained. The possible error in any computation of rate of sediment production from any given drainage basin is considerable. Significant variations are found in sediment yields from closely adjacent watersheds which appear to be generally similar. To make a quantitative evaluation of the change in the rate of denudation when the natural vegetation is disturbed is, therefore, even more difficult. Considering the fact that "soil conservation" has been promoted to the status of a science, our lack of ability to answer what is apparently so simple a question may seem surprising. Let us look at some of the reasons.
| Publication type | Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Conference Paper |
| Title | Land use and sediment yield |
| Year Published | 1956 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
| Publisher location | Chicago, IL |
| Description | 9 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Conference publication |
| Larger Work Title | Man’s role in changing the face of the Earth |
| First page | 639 |
| Last page | 647 |
| Conference Title | Man's role in changing the face of the Earth: Second annual Wenner-Gren Symposium |
| Conference Location | Princeton, NJ |
| Conference Date | June 16-22, 1955 |
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