USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5041 - Channel Change and Bed-Material Transport in the Umpqua River Basin, Oregon

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Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5041

Prepared in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Channel Change and Bed-Material Transport in the Umpqua River Basin, Oregon

By J. Rose Wallick, Jim E. O’Connor, Scott Anderson, Mackenzie Keith, Charles Cannon, and John C. Risley

Contents

Conversion Factors, Datums, and Abbreviations and Acronyms

The Umpqua River

Valley Bottom Mapping and Analysis of Historical Channel Change

Bed-Material Characterization and Transport

Summary and Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References Cited

Appendix A. Location Information for Historical and Repeat Oblique Photography Completed for the Umpqua River, Oregon, Study Area (PDF, 40 KB)

Appendix B. General Land Office Survey Notes and Approximate Location for Meandered Portions of the Umpqua River, Oregon, Between 1853 and 1894 (PDF, 100 KB)

Appendix C. Particle-Size Distributions at Sediment Sampling Sites in the Umpqua River Basin, Oregon, by Reach (PDF, 315 KB)

First posted September 29, 2011

Report PDF (14 MB)

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