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Title Comment Keywords
Geologic Hazard 08:54 - 09:55 (01:01) / 1.4 MB "Douglas M. Morton", "Ann Meeker", foliation, dam, road, engineering, "metamorphic rock", "sedimentary rock", landslide, structure, construction, orientation, "geologic hazard"
Dams 14:42 - 15:41 (00:59) / 1.3 MB "Douglas D. Rhodes", river, flood, dam, discharge, valley, stream, deposition, erosion, lake, sediment, reservoir, "river channel"
Computer Model 20:29 - 21:13 (00:44) / 0.6 MB river, "Old River", dam, "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers", "Old River Control Project", river, "Mississippi River", "Atchafalaya River", "navigational lock", flow-rate, "Red Eye Crossing", "river channel", modeling, WES, "Waterways Experiment Station", discharge, "flow velocity", sediment, deposition
Running Water II: Landscape Evolution 30 minutes / n.a. river, "Mississippi River", sediment, valley, stream, landscape, erosion, dam, flow-rate, flood, deposition
Old River Channel 16:52 - 17:32 (00:40) / 0.9 MB "Old River", dam, "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers", "Old River Control Project", river, "Mississippi River", "Atchafalaya River", "navigational lock", flow-rate
Low Sill Structure 17:32 - 18:25 (00:53) / 1.1 MB "Old River", dam, "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers", "Old River Control Project", river, "Mississippi River", "Atchafalaya River", flow-rate, floodplain, flood
1973 Flood 18:25 - 19:44 (01:19) / 1.7 MB "Nancy Powell", "Old River", dam, "Old River Control Project", river, "Mississippi River", "Atchafalaya River", tributary, "New Orleans", thalweg, scouring
Auxiliary Structure 19:44 - 20:54 (01:10) / 1.4 MB "Nancy Powell", "Old River", dam, "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers", "Old River Control Project", river, "Mississippi River", "Atchafalaya River", flow-rate, flood
Monitoring the Flow-Rate 20:54 - 21:47 (00:53) / 1.1 MB "Old River", dam, "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers", "Old River Control Project", river, "Mississippi River", "Atchafalaya River", flow-rate, flood, "New Orleans District Office"
Discharge 21:47 - 22:44 (00:57) / 1.1 MB "Old River", dam, "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers", "Old River Control Project", river, "Mississippi River", "Atchafalaya River", "flow velocity", flow-rate, discharge, sediment, scouring, equilibrium, gradient
Bed Load 22:44 - 24:06 (01:22) / 1.2 MB "Nancy Powell", "Old River", dam, "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers", "Old River Control Project", river, "Mississippi River", "Atchafalaya River", "bed load", flow-rate, "flow velocity", sediment, scouring, transportation
Control Nature 24:06 - 25:06 (01:00) / 1.5 MB "Douglas D. Rhodes", "Old River", dam, "U.S. Army Corps of Engineers", "Old River Control Project", river, "Mississippi River", "Atchafalaya River", flood, windstorm, wave
Dams 13:34 - 14:34 (01:00) / 1.2 MB "James Sadd", dam, lake, flood, water, irrigation, sediment, transportation, river, beach, reservoir, humans, "fresh water"
Natural Processes 18:16 - 19:38 (01:22) / 1.7 MB "Scott Jenkins", "Scripps Institution of Oceanography", "Scripps Center for Coastal Studies", seawall, environment, shoreline, preservation, erosion, sediment, dam, equilibrium, energy, human
Transporting Sediment Around Dams 19:38 - 20:32 (00:54) / 1.2 MB "Scott Jenkins", "Scripps Institution of Oceanography", "Scripps Center for Coastal Studies", transportation, sediment, dam, beach, erosion, technology, season, "Southern California", lake, sand, foreshore, delta, "lake level", stream
Sand as a Public Resource 20:32 - 21:35 (01:03) / 1.2 MB "Scott Jenkins", "Scripps Institution of Oceanography", "Scripps Center for Coastal Studies", technology, engineering, transportation, sand, dam, erosion, mining, resource, beach
Hydropower 19:19 - 20:19 (01:00) / 1.5 MB "fossil fuel", hydropower, dam, power, "wind power", "solar power", energy, "photo-voltaic cell", "external heat engine"
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