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Recent Sedimentation and Surface-Water Flow Patterns on the Flood Plain of the North Fork Forked Deer River, Dyer County, Tennessee

U.S. Geological Survey, Water-Resources Investigations Report 92-4082

by William J. Wolfe and Timothy H. Diehl


Table of Contents

Abstract

Introduction

Purpose and scope

Previous studies

Acknowledgments

Study area

Flood-plain stratigraphy and recent sedimentation rates

Flood-plain materials

Recent sedimentation rates

Surface-water flow patterns

Location and condition of the natural channel

Primary flow path--the North Fork Forked Deer ditch

Present location of flood-plain flow paths

Flow paths between Doakville Creek and Parker Ditch

Flow paths between Stokes Creek and U.S. Highway 412

Flow paths between Parker Ditch and U.S. Highway 412

Condition of tributaries

Channel evolution in the study area

Summary and conclusions

References cited

 


 

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