The Gutters Down Which Flow The Ruins Of Continents

Luna leopold son of aldo wrote that rivers are the gutters down which flow the ruins of continents.

The gutters down which flow the ruins of continents.

Rivers have been called the gutters down which flow the ruins of continents. Region of land draining into an array of interconnected streams like a drainage basin how are streams classified. To geochemists and geophysicists the transport of materials from the land to the sea is of central interest. Rivers are the gutters down which flow the ruins of continents leopold wolman and miller 1964.

The colorado river and its tributaries have carried away more continental ruins over the past few million years than most any other river system excavating enormous canyons along most of its length. Studies of stream solutes can be viewed from two perspectives. Streams are gutters down which flow the ruins of continents luna leopold. The river however is more than just a transporter of materials.

The world s rivers dump 2 25 x 1010 metric tons of dissolved and particulate matter from erosion of the land into the seas every year thus playing a major role in global biogeochemical cycling. Rivers are the gutters down which flow the ruins of continents.