Abstract
Page PLATE 2. Topographic map of Little Androscoggin River Basin above South Paris, Maine______________________________ In pocket FIGURE 48.Hydrographs of two streams in New Jersey during flood of June 1938_____________________________ 129 49.Relation between area of drainage basin and S al________ 136 50.Variation of computed slope of tributary streams with number of subareas, West River at Newfane, Vt_________________ 139 51.Typical hypsometric curves of drainage basins___________ 140 52.Graph showing general variation in stream slopes and altitude in relation to size of drainage basin__ _________________ 143 m
Keywords
GeologyDrainageHydrology (agriculture)Drainage basinGeomorphologyGeographyCartographyGeotechnical engineeringEcologyBiology
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W. B. Langbein
(1947).
Topographic characteristics of drainage basins.
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https://doi.org/10.3133/wsp968c
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