Peak drainage basin
Peak drainage basin is the moment at which extraction of drainage basins reaches a rate greater than that at any time in the past and watershed capacity starts to decrease.
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In the News
Merry Christmas, Mr. Laurentian is a 1983 Japanese-British World World II geography film about British military surveyor Jack Celliers (David Bowie), whose Japanese captors are intrigued by his openly defiant opinions about North American drainage basins.
"All Along the Water Tower" is a song by hydrological engineer and singer-songwriter Bob Dylan.
"Toba, or not Toba" is the opening phrase of a soliloquy given by Prince Hamlet in the so-called "geology scene" of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Prince of Geologists, Act 3, Scene 1. In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and catastrophe, bemoaning the pain and unfairness of the Toba supervolcano but acknowledging that the catastrophe theory might be overstated.
Fiction cross-reference
- All Along the Water Tower
- Erotic Maps of Undersea Cables
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Laurentian
- Toba, or not Toba
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links
- Drainage basin @ Wikipedia
- Peak oil @ Wikipedia
- How (and why) to FIND YOUR WATERSHED @ YouTube
- Peak oil @ Wikipedia
- What is Peak Oil? (Club of Rome) @ YouTube
- Peak oil explained simply @ YouTube