The New River Basin
The New River also sometimes referred as the "not-so-new-river" is said to be one of the world's oldest rivers. Beginning in the Blue Mountains near Boone, North Carolina, the water found in the river begins its approximately 2,000-mile trip. The trip itinerary includes flowing northwest into Virginia, into the heart of the Appalachians. From there the Little River joins the New River as it enters West Virginia. After it enters W.V., the Greenbrier River joins it and then it flows thru the amazing New River Gorge. Soon after flowing thru the gorge the River loses it's identity and it become the Gauley, where it's begins a cycle of flowing into the Ohio River, into the Mississippi from the Ohio and into the Gulf of Mexico from there. It is said this trip takes approximately 110 days to finish. This is an example of the age-old process of evaporation, transportation, precipitation, and run-off. Scientists have studied this river for decades, in order to find The New River's age. Scientists have came to five conclusions: 320, 225, 65, 10, and 3 million years old.
How could the conclusions vary so much? Well one fact the scientists do know is that the New River follows the path of an ancient river known as the Teays River. The Teays followed a very different path then the current New River's path. Research has found the Teays didn't attach to the Ohio like the New but past the Ohio and flowed into northern Ohio and westward into the Midwestern region of the US. They believe that Glaciers once covered the region. One of these glaciers migrated into the Teays path, and blocked its flow. The river to help itself began to change its course and eventually joined the Ohio. Knowing this, scientists turned to the Gorge that the river carved in WV. The New River Gorge consists of seven formations: Kanawha, New River, Pocahontas, Bluefield, Princeton, Hinton and Bluefield. They have found these formations were formed in the Paleozoic Era in the younger Pennsylvanian and older Mississippian Periods. Rocks from these eras are known to be approximately 320 million years old. This means that the youngest rocks in the Gorge were deposited at or near sea level about 320 million years ago. Because the river cuts through these rocks, the river must be younger than 320 million years. 320 million years would be the maximum age of the New River.
The purpose of this paper is to explain and highlight different aspects of the Powder River Basin to include paleogeography, stratigraphy, maturation history of organic material, vitrinite reflectance data, sulfur content, both historical and current production data, as well as the environmental impact in the basin.
The average elevation in the Hudson Plains is 120m above sea level. It is a flat lowland area. The land is made up of mineral soils, with few outcrops of underlying sandstone and shale. This land was created when the weight of glaciers depressed the Hudson Bay region and the ocean waters flooded areas up to 300 km inland from the current coastline. Then, during the retreat of the huge continental ice sheets, drainage into the Hudson Bay was blocked and lakes (Agassiz and Ojibway for example) were formed along th...
The American Indians that first called this area of northeastern Ohio have had an immense impact on it. Even the name of the river and consequentially the valley is a native word meaning "crooked river"(“Industrialization”). This name was given because the river has many twists and turns and flows north and south. The history of this park goes back as far as the ice age. The first people to roam this vast valley were known as Paleo Indians...
Since the days of Lewis and Clark men have dreamed of harnessing the "Father of Waters" in the interests of commerce and development. The long struggle which ensued required incredible ingenuity and determination on the part of engineers as well as enormous capital investment. The Mississippi River Commission, established in 1897, was the first federal program designed specifically to meet these requirements, and early systems, instituted by the Army Corps of Engineers, saw much success. Technological advancements in the fields of transportation, flood control, and natural resource management were needed and, eventually, emerged to provide the level of control possible today. This report will discuss the technological transformation of the upper Mississippi river and the motivation behind it from the middle 1800's.
Fly fishing is not what this story is all about, although it might seem so at first. Neither is it about religion, even though the father’s first line is: "In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing." Yes, these two things are themes that run through the story and add to its power. But there is so much more. It depicts a place of beauty, history, myth, and mystery, it is a triangle of earth in Montana where the writer grew up. And it captures a space of time in the not-so-distant past with a sensitivity that is both witty and poetic. Robert Redford loved this story and turned it into a handsome movie. Read it yourself or watch the movie, and you will learn something about fly fishing, but you wil...
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The fallout of the 1927 flood demonstrates the one of many continuing struggle in dominating the Mississippi River despite understanding the true nature of the river. For example, “The average gauge readings through the last three months of 1926… of the three largest rivers… was the highest ever known… no one at the Weather Bureau or the Mississippi River Commission correlated or even compiled this information” (pg 175). The failure in understand the nature of the river prelude to more elaborate control schemes by expanding the federal government’s responsibility in seizing full control of the Mississippi River from states jurisdiction. The U.S Army Corps of Engineers is fully responsible in constructing va...
The Cuyahoga River is a river full of antiquity at the length of a mighty one-hundred miles that winds throughout Northeast Ohio, right in the heart of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Before its unfortunate known past of pollution and extemporaneous fires it drew in
The history of the Chicago River is an interesting part of Chicago. The Chicago River was shallow and stagnant, but it had much potential because of its location and what it provided to the city. The Chicago River altered the human population as Chicago developed into a big city. Because of the river factories and stock yards moved in and caused major problems for the city. The rise of Chicago's Stock Yards was a significant benefactor to the city's pollution problem. In the late1840s Chicago large stockyards moved into the city along the river and dumped all of the meat packing waste into the river. Because of this problems such as, sewage, factory waste, and other wastes over flowed the river, and badly polluted the river. Unfortunately the river was connected to Lake Michigan, the source of water for Chicago residents, drinking wate...
All lives revolve around decisions and instances from ones past. In A River Runs Through It (1992), director Robert Redford uses this idea and applies it to a true story of two brothers from Montana, Norman and Paul Maclean (Craig Sheffer and Brad Pitt, respectively). Based on the autobiographical novel by Norman Maclean himself, River uses Maclean’s metaphysical beliefs about life and nature to present its many themes. Using a longing score, various film devices, and a story line involving themes of youth, loss, and the pitfalls of pride, Robert Redford crafts a film about the beauty of the past.
5 Narratives of the Indian Wars 1675-1699, edited by Charles H. Lincoln, Ph.D: A World Wide Web Site Containing Information About the Biology, History, and Geology of New England's Largest River (http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/), University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Endangered Plants and Animals of Oregon, by the Agriculture Experiment Station at Oregon State University.
There have been several Native American people living in this area since around the 4th millennium B.C. Many tribes lived along the shores, and used it for a source of food and crop watering. In the lower Mississippi, tribes such as the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Quapaw, Caddo, osage, Tunica, and Natchez lived and created tribes. In the upper Mississippi, tribes such as Sioux, Sac and Fox, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Illini, Menominee, and Winnebago did the same. The river provided them with means of transportation, clean water to drink, and food like mussels and fish.
Confusion, embarrassment, and guilt can all be found throughout João Guimarães Rosa's short story "The Third Bank of the River." Rosa forces the reader to analyze his words and delve deeply into the hidden meanings behind them. Upon first glance, a story unfolds of a father who seemingly abandons his family and chooses to live out the remainder of his life rowing a small boat back and forth along a river. There are circumstances leading up to this behavior, which new insight to the author's psychological meaning.
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