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Energy Flow Systems
Richard White's Organic Machine, and William Cronon's Changes in the
Land, both examine environments as energy flow systems. The energy flow model
was utilized by the authors to explain relationships within ecosystems.
Richard White's thesis is to examine the river as an organic machine, as
an energy system t ....
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.... bed, and the river
banks. This energy was released as heat into the river.
Often the energy of flowing water was not recognized. There are
occasions when rivers do show their power is destructive ways. Power was
usually demonstrated through floods, and more so in flash floods. Thousands of
years ago, an ice dam in the Columbia River, holding the glacial lake Missoula,
broke and created the largest known freshwater flood in earth's history. The
flood rushed into the Columbia Channel and created the Grand Coulee and other
rock channels that would have taken the Mississippi River ....
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