"Drainage basin" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 20 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Carrizo Plain

    • 740 Words
    • 3 Pages

    range on the north east. One of the major features in this ecosystem is Soda Lake. This is the only closed basins in the southern California coastal ranges; all other valleys have drainage to the sea. The water runoff soda lake comes from the Carrizo and carries sediment from the basin into it. The lake is a shallow ephemeral‚ alkali Endothecia Lake‚ which means it’s a short lived closed basin the high alkali level. The water and surrounding areas are home to many creatures to include brine and fairy

    Premium Soil San Andreas Fault

    • 740 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Restless Earth

    • 2197 Words
    • 9 Pages

    GCSE Geography| Topic 2| Water On The Land What are the Key Ideas for this Topic? The Shape of river valleys changes as the river flows downstream River Features & Landforms Storm Hydrographs Flooding in MEDC’s and LEDC’s Hard and Soft Strategies for River Management and Reservoirs The Shape of river valleys and River Processes A rivers long profile changes over its course. Every river has: An Upper Course Middle Course Lower Course Long Profile- shows how the gradient

    Premium Hydrology Flood Surface runoff

    • 2197 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Wastewater Treatment

    • 1502 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Activated Sludge Process will encompass * Design of aeration basins. Relevant design parameters are * BOD load from the upstream process * Mixed Liquor Suspended Solids Concentration (MLSS – mg/l) – typically 2‚000 to 4‚000 * Sludge Age 5 to 25 days * Sludge settleabiltiy (SVI ml/g) typically 100-120 * Process Oxygen Demand (POD) * Generally fine bubble diffusers used in modern plant design – actual oxygen transfer efficiency dependent

    Premium Sewage treatment Activated sludge Wastewater

    • 1502 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    The Colorado River

    • 3776 Words
    • 16 Pages

    lack of land that could be irrigated easily. By the turn of the century‚ most present day cities and towns were already established. Trails‚ roads‚ and railroads linked several areas with neighboring regions. Although the Colorado River drainage system was still not integrated. In the mid 1900’s many dams had been built to harness and use the water. A new phase of development occurred at the end of the second World War. There was a large emphasis on recreation‚ tourism‚ and environmental

    Premium Colorado River

    • 3776 Words
    • 16 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Carlisle Flooding

    • 794 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Caldew and Petteril. The drainage basin covers approximately 2400km2 and is home to approximately 244‚000 people. The catchment is mainly rural‚ with only 1% classified as urban: the main urban areas are Carlisle‚ Penrith and Appleby. Latitude - 54°53’33.08"N Longitude - 2°55’58.68"W Carlisle is situated on the flood plain of the River Eden with three rivers meeting in the city.It is located at the confluence of the rivers Eden‚ Caldew and Petteril. The drainage basin covers approximately 2400km2

    Premium Flood River Hydrology

    • 794 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Karst

    • 23240 Words
    • 93 Pages

    Society) American Cave Conservation Association (with support from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and a Section 319(h) Nonpoint Source Grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through the Kentucky Division of Water) Illinois Basin Consortium (Illinois‚ Indiana and Kentucky State Geological Surveys) National Park Service U.S. Bureau of Land Management USDA Forest Service U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service U.S. Geological Survey AGI Environmental Awareness Series‚ 4

    Premium Groundwater Aquifer Cave

    • 23240 Words
    • 93 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Analysis and Interpretation Trends of the data: With the cross-sectional area on the whole it seems to increase as the river progresses‚ with Site 1 being 9.23 and Site 5 being 18.13. However Site 4 has a higher figure than Site 5‚ yet this was due to the fact that we could only use part of Site 4‚ as one half of the river was completely dry‚ so the results from that site are likely to be an anomaly. Looking at the Bedload in the bar graphs it is clear that with the pebble roundness the pebbles

    Premium Geomorphology

    • 1311 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Gph 111 Final Study Guide

    • 581 Words
    • 3 Pages

    velocity times the cross-sectional area Slide about urbanization of streams? A divide is a line that separates drainage bases Big one: continental divide An alluvial fan is a depositional feature‚ and a fluvial feature Horton’s Laws of stream networks/orders As the stream order increases‚ the number of streams decreases Stream length increases as the stream order increases Drainage area gets bigger as the stream order increases Oxbow

    Premium Sedimentary rock Igneous rock Rock

    • 581 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Mr Nima

    • 9237 Words
    • 37 Pages

    Paper 86‚ 263 p. Gleason‚ H. A.‚ 1926-27‚ The individualistic concept of the plant association: Bull. Torrey Bot. Club‚ v. 53‚ p. 7-26. 1927‚ Further views on the succession-concept: Ecology‚ v. 8‚ p. 299-326. Glock‚ W. S.‚ 1931‚ The development of drainage systems: Geog. Rev.‚ v. 21‚ p. 475-482. Hack‚ J. T.‚ 1960‚ Interpretation of erosional topography in humid temperate regions: Am. Jour. Sci.‚ v. 258-A‚ p. 80-97. Hack‚ J. T.‚ and Goodlett‚ J. C.‚ 1960‚ Geomorphology and forest ecology of a mountain

    Premium Systems theory Thermodynamics

    • 9237 Words
    • 37 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Flood Acton Plan

    • 1255 Words
    • 6 Pages

    | | 1. | | |   | | Flood Action Plan (FAP) an initiative to study the causes and nature of flood in Bangladesh and to prepare guidelines for controlling it. FAP was based on several earlier studies by UNDP‚ a French Engineering consortium‚ USAID and JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency). The FAP included 29 different components of which 11 were regional‚ with some pilot projects‚ and the rest were supporting studies on issues like Environment‚ Fisheries‚ Geographic Information

    Premium Flood Hydrology Water

    • 1255 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
Page 1 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 50