The Colorado River Through Grand Canyon: Natural History and Human Change

by Bryan T. Brown and Steven W. Carothers

Book Overview

Once Glen Canyon Dam was completed in 1963, the Colorado River in its passage through the Grand Canyon would never be the same. Now sealed off at both ends, the Colorado has been transformed into a carefully-tended aquarium, its flow of water controlled and monitored. The effect on the Canyon's physical and biological systems has been extraordinary.Steven Carothers and Bryan Brown--both veteran river runners and scientists--draw on river history and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816511314
• ISBN13: 9780816511310
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 10.3"