Pacific Southwest

Title: Channel incision and suspended sediment delivery at Caspar Creek, Mendocino County, California

Author: Dewey, Nicholas J.; Lisle, Thomas E.; Reid, Leslie M.

Date: 2003

Source: EOS Transactions AGU 84(46), Fall Mtg. Suppl., Abstract H52A-1159

Description: Tributary and headwater valleys in the Caspar Creek watershed,in coastal Mendocino County, California,show signs of incision along much of their lengths.An episode of incision followed initial-entry logging which took place between 1860 and 1906. Another episode of incision cut into skid-trails created for second-entry logging in the 1970's.

Keywords: PSW4351, Caspar Creek, sedimentation, channel incision, gully, hydrologic

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Dewey, Nicholas J.; Lisle, Thomas E.; Reid, Leslie M.  2003.  Channel incision and suspended sediment delivery at Caspar Creek, Mendocino County, California.   EOS Transactions AGU 84(46), Fall Mtg. Suppl., Abstract H52A-1159.