The southern parts of Canada rely on water that rivers such as The Bow, Red Deer, and Northern Saskatchewan provided to many sectors of society. The water budget for these particular rivers are based from mountain headwaters; therefore, runoff and snowmelt are vital with respect to preservation among these rivers (Prowse and Conly, 1998). A study conducted in 1951-1993 Hopkinson and Young (1998) concluded ice erosion, not including snow melt, contributed to 1.8% of emission into the Bow River. These results were based on examining volume fluctuations in an upstream lake. Although this sum seems extraneous the benefaction is indispensable. Due to climatic temperature changes, glacier area has decreased and as a result, the Bow River is not receiving
The Northeast region is the best region because it has a lot of very important, historical landmarks. Also it has amazing products & natural resources that you might love. Best of all we got the most beautiful climates that I personally love and I think you should too.
Case study: the flooding that occurred in Minden Hills in the spring of 2013, flooded the downtown core. The picturesque cottage town has the Gull River flowing through it. The river overflowed in April because of many reasons: a couple of days of rain, the third largest amount in over a century, but it also happened because the frost in the ground stopped the water from going into the Earth, the lakes and rivers being full from the spring thaw, and the rapid
Creemore Springs is a microbrewery in operation since the summer of 1987 located in the community of Creemore, Ontario. Customers of Creemore Springs beer are categorized as a niche market with interest in the brewer’s two lines of beer: Lager and UrBlock. The high quality, natural spring water, and recipe all contribute to Creemore Spring’s great tasting beer. They currently produce about 2.2 million bottles of beer each year. A recent discussion about the contract bottle cleaner’s poor performance has raised the question of whether Creemore Springs should clean their own bottles in-house.
Glacial Lake Peterborough had many attributing spillways attached to it, feeding meltwater and sediment from the ice margin and or other glacial lakes. Much of the sediment that was deposited in Glacial Lake Peterborough came from either from the stagnant ice blocks located on the Oak Ridges moraine or from the Lake Algonquin drainage system. Much of the deposition in this lake was dominated by sediment stratification, which may have been largely influenced by thermal stratification. As a result of thermal stratification occurring in this glacial lake sediment inputs were greatly influenced depending on the different sediment densities between the lake bottom water to that of the incoming meltwater and if the inflow density was less/more than the bottom water than the lake water bottom, than new transport and depositional paths were created
This is a report based on three days of observations and testing in the region known as the Peterborough drumlin field. It will address a variety of regional elements, such as climate, soil, vegetation, hydrology, geomorphology, and geology. A variety of sites located on the Canadian Shield, the zone of thick glacial deposits to the south, and the transition between them will be the focus of the report. It is supplemented with previous research on the region. September 8, 1999, day one of the field study involved an area of largely granite bedrock that is part of the Canadian Shield and is the most northern point of study (see Map 2). September 9, 1999, day two, involved three main areas of study: the Bridgenorth esker (Map 3), Mark S. Burnham Park (Map 4), and the Rice Lake drumlin (Map 6). These sites are in areas of thick glacial deposits. September 10, 1999, day three, involved studying the Warsaw Caves (see Map 5) as a transition zone between Precambrian Shield rock to the north and Paleozoic rock to the south. A general map of the entire study region is provided by Map 1.
The tract within these boundaries comprises an area of thirty-eight thousand six hundred and ten square miles, within the following limits: Commencing within Province of Manitoba above the forty-ninth parallel, along the western border of the Province of Ontario; along the southern shores of Winnipeg River, following its limits westward and north; along the southern shores of Lake Winnipeg moving west, past the Red River, moving westward south of Dennis Lake and Lindals Lake; north of and encompassing North, East, and West Shoal Lake; along the southern river basin of Lake Manitoba and Lake Francis; following the shores of Lake Manitoba westward, southward and then northward; continuing northward to Dauphin Lake along its southern shores, and continuing west to the most westward border of the Province of Manitoba; encompassing all lakes and regions within including the Pleasant Valley Reservoir, Otter Lake, Proven Lake, Bottle Lake, Clear Lake, Oak Lake, Maple Lake, the Whitewater Lakes, Whitemouth Island, Sprague Lake, Moose Lake, and all others; southward along the Mani...
Glaciers are an integral part of the world’s climate. In fact, as Richard Armstrong of the University of Colorado says, “Glaciers are key indicators in monitoring and detecting climate change” (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, 2003, p. 1). Not only are they an important part of monitoring current climate, they can hold many keys to the past. Glaciers are in fact, “a source of paleoclimate data…” (Meier and Dyurgerov, 1980, p. 37). This paleoclimate data can give geologists information on the conditions that were present at the time of the glaciers birth, as well as the approximate age. This has an important role in the geologic time scale of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. These Glaciers played a role in the carving of the present day Rocky Mountains in Colorado, which will be the primary focus of this paper. In addition, glacial formations will be discussed to give the reader background information and the future of the Glaciers in Colorado will close this paper.
Currently, over half of the world’s population lives in urban based areas (Owrangi et al, 2014), and this increase in population is expected to contribute to further increases in flood risks (ibid). Vancouver has achieved rapid socioeconomic development due to the increased employment opportunities and growth rates, directly stressing local natural resources by increasing population and urbanization (Owrangi et al, 2014).
The Red River Settlement The Red River Settlement was founded by the Fifth Earl of Selkirk, Thomas Douglas, in 1832. the year 1812 - 1812. He called his settlement Aissinidoia. Aissinidoia was a close-knit community whose economy was built around the Hudson Bay Company. The settlement was split into two major groupings: The French speaking and predominate Roman Catholic Metis and the English speaking and predominate Protestant “country born”.
As global temperatures and ocean levels rise, the water levels of the Great Lakes continues to fall. As the lakes hit their all time lowest level in global history in 2012, society remains ignorant to the imposing doom that lurks ahead. Since the Great Lakes make up the largest group of fresh water lakes on Earth and are responsible for approximately 21% of the Earth’s fresh water supply, this issue is becoming one of the largest environmental and economical issues our modern world faces. The effects of this issue include destroying animal habitats and a major economic market; shipping. Water levels in the Great Lakes have been dropping for the past fourteen years, but it wasn’t until boats were scraping the bottom of Lake Huron that people began to take notice. This terrible environmental issue has been dubbed a long term cycle of over evaporation and not enough precipitation to replenish the Lakes. Keith Kompoltowicz, chief of watershed hydrology for the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Detroit has been monitoring this issue for a decade and has made startling discoveries, such as in 2012, he discovered Lake Michigan and Lake Huron’s water levels only rose four inches after winter, whereas the Lakes have been regularly recorded as gaining a foot of water after the winter season had ended. This amount of water added is not enough to maintain a proper water level during the dry, hot summer seasons that evaporate much water from the Great Lakes. While some scientists say that this is just a cycle that will adjust itself naturally, most experts that have been studying this phenomenon, such as Kompoltwicz, would agree that the issue has gone to far
The effects of water scarcity are relatively new for irrigators in the Klamath Basin as decreasing summer and spring snow melts have brought a re-examination of water priorities in the region. In times of drought, irrigators received priority in water allocation because of the prevailing legal rights and normative values at the time. The Klamath Wildlife Refuges and the Salmon received the leftover water that which was not needed for irrigation (Tarlock 2007). In 2001, the USFWS issued biological opinion reports that stated that because of the severe drought, water levels in both the Upper Klamath and Lower Klamath must be maintained at higher levels to preserve the endangered Coho Salmon and the Short nose and Lost
Ice dams in the Clark Fork area that backed up Glacial Lake Missoula actually caused some of the largest floods known to man. As ice will float, these ice dams would periodically rise up and burst, catastrophically flooding the Rathdrum Prairie, eastern Washington and into northern Oregon. Locally, these floods brought in glacial till and deep deposits of outwash that obliterated the St. Joe River once running through the Rathdrum Prairie. The southernmost edge of these deposits terminated where Coeur d’Alene exists today, damming the old St. Joe River and creating Lake Coeur d’Alene (Alt and Hyndman, 73). The new lake received the entire flow of the Coeur d’Alene and St. Joe Rivers, more than could be absorbed through the gravel deposits, thereby causing the lake to overflow and seek a new course, now known as the Spokane Ri...
Not only does local plant life and animal life suffer from this loss of land, the river itself is affected through vaporization. A water reservoir creates a greater surface area by which more water is evaporated and depleted from the ...
Water and the water cycle have essential roles in almost every environmental system (textbook). The hydrologic cycle, also known as the water cycle, summarizes how water in all different forms circulates through our environment (textbook). There are different parts of the hydrologic cycle that have an impact the climate. Some of these parts contribute certain effects of climate change like droughts, melting glaciers, decreasing river flows, and much more (textbook). This paper will examine the components of the water cycle and the impacts that it takes from climate change.
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