Flood-prone Low-lying Territories along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Over recent decades the increased frequency of natural hazards resulting from global climate change has become one of the most severe problems affecting sustainability of costal zones. In particular, low-lying ...

Time evolution of soils part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Soils are vital for the sustainability of ecosystems and human societies (e.g. (Montgomery, 2007)), and therefore it is important to understand how their rates of production and erosion are balanced. Furthermore, ...

Beach replenishment on developed shorelines: a coupled human–landscape system part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Beach replenishment (also called "beach nourishment") is an engineering strategy commonly used on sandy shorelines where erosion threatens coastal property and infrastructure. The process involves ...

Assessing Future Flood Risks in the Taihu Basin, East China part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
The past decade has seen a significant transition in the management of fluvial and coastal flood risks from flood 'defence' (employing 'hard engineering' measures such as flood embankments, ...

Human-Induced Floodplain Sedimentation in the Driftless Area of southwestern Wisconsin: Consequences on Riparian Ecosystems part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
The Driftless Area of southwestern Wisconsin (Figure 1) is a unique region in the Upper Midwest, USA, because it escaped the direct effects of continental glaciation. In contrast, surrounding areas have been ...

The Drying of Sierra Nevada Wet Meadows Impacted by Channel Incision and Opportunities for Restoration part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
The Connection Between Groundwater and Stream Channels: When considering the water cycle of a watershed, stream valleys represent a zone where terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems interact through the exchange of ...

Logging, erosion, and sediment yield in western China part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
We generally know that logging, and clear-cutting in particular, can cause enormous amounts of erosion due to loss of soil cohesion. So, one would predict that since most of the forests in western China were ...

Alluvial Fans and Archaeological Sites on the East Range of Fort Huachuca Military Reservation, SE Arizona part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Introduction In the American Southwest, a ubiquitous and recognizable geomorphic landscape feature is the bajada, consisting of a series of broad, laterally coalesced alluvial fans. These alluvial aprons emerging ...

A Case Study: Geomorphic Effects of the 2009 Big Pole Fire, Skull Valley, UT part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Introduction On August 6, 2009, a lightning strike caused the Big Pole Fire to break out in Skull Valley on private and Federal lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the US Forest Service, and the State ...

Coastline changes to Aceh from the great 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Andrew Moore Earlham College Location Continent: Asia Country: Indonesia State/Province: Aceh City: Banda Aceh UTM coordinates and datum: none Setting Climate Setting: Tropical Tectonic setting: Island Arc Type: ...