Lake Michigan in motion : responses of an inland sea to weather, earth-spin, and human activities / Clifford H. Mortimer.

By:

Mortimer, Clifford Hiley

Contributor(s):

United States EPA Great Lakes National Program Office, Center for Great Lakes Studies, Wisconsin Aquatic Technology and Environmental Research Institute, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Keillor CollectionPublisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2004Description: 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0299178307 (cloth : alk. paper)
029917834X (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History

Other classification:

GENL.50.a.MORC2004

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Contents:

List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface and acknowledgments -- 1. Three centuries of physical enquiry -- 2. The lake basin: excavated by ice; then shaped by shore erosion and sediment transport -- 3. Water levels and flows -- 4. The seasonal cycles of heating/cooling and layering/mixing -- 5. Parade of lake currents -- 6. Categories and models of waves -- 7. Long surface waves: seiches, tides, and storm surges -- 8. Probing the underwater wave field -- 9. Models in action -- 10. Hydrodynamic constraints on biological production and human affairs -- Appendix of figure captions, in full with attributions -- Sources cited -- Index.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-294) and indexes.

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