Front Cover; Contents; Figures; Foreword; Preface; Biography; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- The physical region and primeval landscape; Chapter 2 -- European settlement and changes of land use; Chapter 3 -- The systematic effects of historical agriculture on the physical landscape; Chapter 4 -- Upland gully erosion and its effects; Chapter 5 -- The tributaries: Zone of early, complex changes of process and form; Chapter 6 -- The upper main valleys: Zone of later complex changes of process and form; Chapter 7 -- The lower main valleys: Zone of perennial sedimentation
Chapter 8 -- The great flood of August 2007 and its implicationsConclusions; References; Glossary; Appendix: Unit Conversion Factors; Back Cover
Summary
""This thought-provoking book demonstrates how processes of landscape transformation, usually illustrated only in simplified or idealized form, play out over time in real, complex landscapes. Trimble illustrates how a simple landscape disturbance, generated in this case by agriculture, can spread an astonishing variety of altered hydrologic and sedimentation processes throughout a drainage basin. The changes have spatial and temporal patterns forced on them by the distinctive topographic structure of drainage basins. ""Through painstaking field surveys, comparative photographic records, carefu
