EVPP 108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Beekeeping, Dust Bowl, Nutrition Education

• School: George Mason University
• Department: Environmental Science and Public Policy
• Course: EVPP 108
• Professor: Kim Largen

Document Summary

Gullied/ravenous land, the gullies are formed as a result of localised surface runoff affecting the friable unconsolidated material in the formation of perceptible channels resulting in undulating terrain. The gullies are the first stage of excessive land dissection followed by their networking which leads to the development of ravenous land. The word ravine" is usually associated not with an isolated gully but a network of deep gullies formed generally in thick alluvium and entering a nearby river, flowing much lower than the surrounding high grounds. The ravines, are extensive systems of gullies developed along river courses: undulating uplands with or without scrub, they occupy (relatively) higher topography like uplands or high grounds with or without scrub. These lands are generally prone to degradation or erosion. These exclude hilly and mountainous terrain: waterlogged land and marshy/swampy land, waterlogged land is that land where the water is at/or near the surface and water stands for most of the year.