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Recent emphasis on milldams as a cause of colonial-era floodplain sediment deposits and source for modern remobilization has ignited debate in scientific and environmental policy forums, especially in the mid-Atlantic USA. Although milldams are regionally ubiquitous and visually striking, no investigation has demonstrated that they are a dominant driver of regional floodplain sediment accumulation...
Disparity between watershed erosion rates and downstream sediment delivery has remained an important theme in geomorphology for many decades, with the role of floodplains in sediment storage as a common focus. In the Piedmont Province of the eastern USA, upland deforestation and agricultural land use following European settlement led to accumulation of thick packages of overbank sediment in valley...
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