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The West without water : what past floods, droughts, and other climatic clues tell us about tomorrow / B. Lynn Ingram and Frances Malamud-Roam ; foreword by Sandra L. Postel.

Author/creator Ingram, B. Lynn, 1961-
Other author/creatorMalamud-Roam, Frances, 1961-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoBerkeley : University of California Press,
Descriptionxx, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
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Subject(s)
Contents From drought to deluge : "normal" climate in the West -- The 1861-1862 floods : lessons lost -- The great droughts of the twentieth century -- Why is climate so variable in the West? -- Reading the past : the Earth's history books -- From ice to fire : into the Holocene -- The "long drought" of the mid-Holocene -- Ice returns : the neoglaciation -- The great "medieval drought" -- The little ice age : megafloods and climate swings -- Why climate changes : cycles and oscillations -- The hydraulic era : salmon and dams -- Future climate change and the American West -- What the past tells us about tomorrow.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 223-244) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013003306
ISBN9780520268555 (cloth : alk. paper)

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