| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 222 pages) : illustrations (color), color maps |
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data file rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Rivers and geological time -- The first drop of rain on the nascent Earth -- How plants bent and split rivers -- Breaking Pangea: the ancestral rivers of Africa -- Hot and cold: the river histories of Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica -- Young and restless: the evolving rivers of Asia -- The conflicted rivers of Europe -- The reversing rivers of South America -- Canyons and cataracts in North America -- A Canadian Amazon -- Frozen out: northern rivers sculpted by ice -- Megafloods and Noah’s Ark -- Rivers drowned by the sea -- From stone age streams to river civilizations -- The lost Saraswati River of the Indian Subcontinent -- Confucian engineers on the Yellow River of China -- Dead and wounded rivers -- Collapsing and closing dams -- Between the dams: an elegy for the Saskatchewan River -- Without spoiling the land: rivers and agriculture -- London’s buried rivers -- Restored rivers. |
| Summary |
A comprehensive introduction to the epic geological history of the world's rivers, from the first drop of rain on the Earth to the modern environmental crisis. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Rivers -- History.
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Water and civilization.
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Rivers. (OCoLC)fst01098312
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Water and civilization. (OCoLC)fst01171538
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gibling, Martin. River planet. Edinburgh : Dunedin Academic Press, [2021] 1780460996 (OCoLC)1199129101 |
| ISBN |
9781780466590 (Kindle electronic book) |
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1780466595 (Kindle electronic book) |
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9781780466583 (electronic bk.) |
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1780466587 (electronic bk.) |
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9781780466606 (electronic bk.) |
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1780466609 (electronic bk.) |
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