United States Geological Survey YearbookU.S. Geological Survey, 1994 - Geology |
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... zones occupy most of the floodplain surface ; where the floodplain is wide , the low - energy zones typically predominate . These natural floodplain zones were impacted differently by the 1993 floods , when the high - energy flood ...
... zones occupy most of the floodplain surface ; where the floodplain is wide , the low - energy zones typically predominate . These natural floodplain zones were impacted differently by the 1993 floods , when the high - energy flood ...
Page 17
... zone . Scour holes , locally known as " blow holes " or " blew holes , " were eroded into the floodplain by the high - intensity flood scour associated with these levee breaches . The larger holes are as much as 500 meters wide and ...
... zone . Scour holes , locally known as " blow holes " or " blew holes , " were eroded into the floodplain by the high - intensity flood scour associated with these levee breaches . The larger holes are as much as 500 meters wide and ...
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... zone on Jupiter of fragment G of Comet Shoemaker - Levy 9. The image on the left was made in green light with the Planetary Camera channel of the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 ( WFPC2 ) . The image on the right is the same field taken ...
... zone on Jupiter of fragment G of Comet Shoemaker - Levy 9. The image on the left was made in green light with the Planetary Camera channel of the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 ( WFPC2 ) . The image on the right is the same field taken ...
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... zones of the Rocky Mountains constitute one of the largest undisturbed ecosystems in the United States . The Wilderness Act and the Clean Air Act gave congressionally designated Wilder- ness Areas special protection from anthropo- genic ...
... zones of the Rocky Mountains constitute one of the largest undisturbed ecosystems in the United States . The Wilderness Act and the Clean Air Act gave congressionally designated Wilder- ness Areas special protection from anthropo- genic ...
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... zones , contains keys to a large part of the Earth's geologic history and huge resources of oil , gas , and coal . For decades , much of this part of the world was closed to Western scien- tists interested in cooperative geoscience stud ...
... zones , contains keys to a large part of the Earth's geologic history and huge resources of oil , gas , and coal . For decades , much of this part of the world was closed to Western scien- tists interested in cooperative geoscience stud ...
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