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Land transformation and pond sediment information
Author(s) -
Kashiwaya K.,
Okimura T.,
Harada T.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
earth surface processes and landforms
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.294
H-Index - 127
eISSN - 1096-9837
pISSN - 0197-9337
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1096-9837(199710)22:10<913::aid-esp788>3.0.co;2-z
Subject(s) - sedimentation , sediment , drainage basin , hydrology (agriculture) , environmental science , intensity (physics) , loss on ignition , land use , land use, land use change and forestry , catchment area , drainage , physical geography , geology , geography , ecology , geomorphology , chemistry , geotechnical engineering , physics , cartography , quantum mechanics , environmental chemistry , biology
Five years of observations on sedimentation rates in two ponds located near transformed land areas in the Kobe district of central Japan have shown the relationship between sedimentation and development during land transformation. One of the ponds observed has artificial land transformation in its drainage area (KR), whereas the other does not (KN). The sedimentation rate in the pond without artificial land transformation is roughly proportional to the rainfall intensity, whereas in the pond with land transformation it is related to change in the transformed area as well as the rainfall intensity. The relative sedimentation rate (sedimentation rate divided by the catchment area and rainfall intensity) is also related to loss on ignition and grain density; large relative sedimentation rates correspond to low loss on ignition and high grain density, suggesting that these factors are very sensitive to land transformation. Changes in catchment factors, which indicate the topographical and hydrological conditions in the catchment area, are inversely proportional to change in the ratio of the reclaimed to the natural area; this is indicative of change in the erodibility of the surface material in the catchment area. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.