Steep Slopes
Using soil binders to control runoff and soil loss in steep slopes under simulated rainfall
... world. Steep slopes are highly vulnerable to water ...from steep slopes has received significant attention, as sediment is both a pollutant and an effective vector for contaminant ...hill ...
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Mulched rip lines stop soil erosion under annual cropping on steep slopes in northwest tasmania
... A new soil erosion control technique has been developed for use on steep slopes used for annual cropping. A purpose-built implement has been designed for installing the mulched rip lines. Immediately after ...
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An experimental study of particle-driven gravity currents on steep slopes with entrainment of particles
... Currently two kinds of models are used to describe gravity currents: The so-called “box-model” is a model widely used by the authors studying currents on low slopes. The princi- ple of this model is that the ...
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Quantification, analysis and modelling of soil erosion on steep slopes using LiDAR and UAV photographs
... Up to now, various studies have investigated slope erosion on steep slopes. Most of these used classic measurement methods, e.g. erosion pins or sediment traps (cf. Becht 1995; Sirvent et al., 1997; Evans ...
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Evaluation of Ground Covers for Erosion Control and Grass Establishment on Steep Slopes.
... Overall polyacrylamide has been found to preserve surface aggregate structure, prevent surface crusting, increase infiltration, decrease runoff volume, reduce soil loss, and encourage vegetative growth (Akbarzadeh et al. ...
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Steep Slopes: music and change in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
... Steep Slopes Doherty, Peter 1995, Burning the bark of the areca palms: a study of the changing use of metaphor in song lyrics of the Kewa of the Southern Highlands Province, Papua New Gu[r] ...
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Simulating run-up on steep slopes with operational Boussinesq models; capabilities, spurious effects and instabilities
... by applying Lagrangian coordinates (Goto, 1979; Goto and Shuto, 1983; Pedersen and Gjevik, 1983; Zelt and Raichlen, 1990; Johnsgard, 1999) or a more flexible ALE (arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian) description ( ¨ ...
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Safety Analysis of Coupler Buffer in Heavy Load Locomotive when Emergency Braking on Long Steep Slopes
... Abstract. With the rapid development of national economy, the heavy load transportation has become an important means in the field of railway freight transportation, and the heavy load locomotive equipment has also ...
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Simulation of rainfall effects on sediment transport on steep slopes in an Alpine catchment
... The Lainbach catchment is located near the town of Benediktbeuern in Bavaria, Germany (Fig. 1). The torrent Lainbach is a 7 km-long tributary of the Loisach River that flows into the Isar and the Danube. The upper right ...
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Urban Growth and Front Development on Risk Zones: GIS Application for Mapping of Impacts on Yaounde North Western Highlands, Cameroon
... This risk has been observed along the densely occupied slopes. Risk of landslides, rock falls, mass wasting is common resulting from urban agriculture practices along these fragile lands, deforestation for fuel ...
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Use of the KINFIL rainfall runoff model on the Hukava catchment
... the steep slopes in the Hukava catchment direct runoffs (described above) have been assumed, and their routing has been approximated by a kinematic wave in the KINFIL model (Overton & Meadows ...
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Effects of mountain tea plantations on nutrient cycling at upstream watersheds
... ministration), steep slopes (on average 42 %), and heavy use of fertilizers in tea plantations (425–2373 kg N ha −1 yr −1 and 99–551 kg P ha −1 yr −1 ; Water Resources Agency, 2010; see ...
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Identification of potential rockfall source areas at a regional scale using a DEM-based geomorphometric analysis
... In the three Alpine HMA, the decomposition of the SAD into four GDMU can be clearly achieved (Fig. 8). The sum of these Gaussian distributions reproduces the SAD with a co- efficient of determination close to 1, meaning ...
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Torrential floods and town and country planning in Serbia
... on slopes (surfaces marked 1, 8, 9, 10; on ...on steep slopes and through the torrent beds of the Manastirica River and its tributaries, with the following effects: development of erosion (sheet ...
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Challenges in Road Construction and Timber Harvesting in Japan
... and steep slopes ranging between 15 and 35 degrees, both vehicle systems and cable systems are available, and the choice depends on geology, terrain, soil, and forest manage- ment ...
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Machining of Borosilicate Glass with ECDM using Different Abrasives
... From the main effect plots it can be clearly concluded that the type of Electrolyte and it’s concentration is critical for Material Removal Rate MRR as it shows steep slopes.. The other [r] ...
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Landslide susceptibility mapping by using a geographic information system (GIS) along the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (Karakoram Highway), Pakistan
... and steep slopes are re- sponsible for the associated susceptibility in these ...and steep topography, the KKH near Raikot Bridge and Jijal was found to be at very high ...long, steep ...
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Expanding Ground-based Harvesting onto Steep Terrain: A Review
... (c) any other forestry equipment specifically de- signed for use on steep slopes should not be operated on a slope which exceeds 50%. The Workers’ Compensation Board of British Co- lumbia (WorkSafeBC 2006) ...
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Prediction of Erosion Rate at Several Land Units in Upper Watershed of Batang Mangau, West Sumatera
... with steep slopes (KrF), with a percentage of 62% slope and slope length of 45 ...rather steep slope (KrD), mixed garden with a rather steep slope (KcD), and their fields with steep ...
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Permafrost distribution in steep rock slopes in Norway: measurements, statistical modelling and implications for geomorphological processes
... 1999). Steep slopes and rock walls are mainly associated with four types of settings ...(i) steep valley sides associated with large U-shaped valleys which drained the ice sheets during the ...
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