A guide to the selection, construction, and installation of soil bioengineering and biotechnical slope protection against erosion and mass wasting, for professionals and students in geotechnical engineering, geology, soil science, forestry, landscape architecture, and restoratio…
Basin and Petroleum System Modeling (BPSM) is coupled-physics approach that tracks over the course of basin history, the evolution of basin geometry, compaction, pressure, fluid flow, temperature, and chemical transformation of organic matter to quantitatively predict petroleum …
Soils provide numerous functions to support natural and human life. Soils and their functions develop over long timescales (decennia to millennia) under influence of environmental properties and drivers such as water flow, vegetation type and topography of the landscape. At the …
The impacts of Superstorm Sandy on coastal resources of the eastern United States have brought the importance of resilient sand dune systems into focus. While dunes are primarily dominated by American beachgrass (Ammophila breviligulata), a host of other native species commonly …
Soil export from agricultural watersheds in Iowa is an ongoing natural phenomenon that in recent history, due to significant unnatural increases, has become a foremost environmental concern. Since European-style agricultural land management began in the mid-19th century, deliver…
This thesis concerns soil erosion and conservation in Zimbabwe. It is framed in the light of the contemporary heightened concern for the environment generally in Africa and the recent publication of the National Conservation Strategy for Zimbabwe (1987). Soil erosion is an arche…
New analytical and numerical solutions are developed to both the kinematic approximation to the St Venant equations and the Hairsine-Rose (HR) soil erosion model in order to gain a better physical understanding of soil erosion and sediment transport in shallow overland flow. The…
Excessive delivery of fine sediment from agricultural river catchments to aquatic ecosystems can degrade chemical water quality and ecological habitats. Management of accelerated soil losses and the transmission of sediment-associated agricultural pollutants, such as phosphorus,…
Sustainable agriculture in China is highly threatened by rapid urbanization, land degradation and high population pressure. Yunnan Province, south-west China, is 94% mountainous and lacks flat land. Food shortages and inappropriate cultivation have led to intensive cultivation o…
Soil quality and soil erosion
"Soil Quality and Soil Erosion is based on invited and contributory papers of a July 1996 symposium organized by the NC-174 and NC-59 Committees in conjunction with the 51st Annual Meeting of the Soil and Water Conservation Society at the Keystone Center in Colorado. The authors…