The Fly River, Papua New Guinea
Subtitle: environmental studies in an impacted tropical river system
By: edited by Barrie Bolton
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Developments in earth & environmental sciences -- 9; Developments in earth & environmental sciences -- 9.
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 620
ISBN-13: 9780444529640
Subjects: Water; Environmental impact analysis; Stream ecology; Copper mines and mining; Gold mines and mining; Effect of mining on; Pollution
Description: "The Fly River, Papua New Guinea offers a rare insight into the physical and biological changes caused by mining in an otherwise pristine environment. With a catchment area still largely covered by tropical rainforest and relatively few human inhabitants, the Fly River and its tributaries, the Ok Tedi and Strickland rivers, present an opportunity to document and understand the dynamics of a large tropical river system." "Since mining of copper and gold began in 1984 near the headwaters of the Ok Tedi, there has been intense monitoring of the environment and the impact that mining has had. This book assembles and synthesizes two decades' worth of research from leading experts with firsthand experience."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Geomorphology, hydrology, and climate of the Fly River system / Geoff Pickup and Andrew R. Marshall; title: Texture, geochemistry, and mineralogy of sediments of the Fly River system / Barrie R. Bolton, Jesse L. Pile and Henry Kundapen; title: The rapid spread of mine-derived sediment across the middle Fly River floodplain / Geoff Day ... [et al.]; title: Processes, sediments, and stratigraphy of the Fly River Delta / John P. Walsh and Peter V. Ridd; title: Variable styles of sediment accumulation impacting strata formation on a clinoform : Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea / John S. Crockett ... [et al.]; title: A mass balance for sediment and copper in the rivers, estuaries, shelf and slope of the Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea / Gregg S. Brunskill, Irena Zagorskis and John Pfitzner; title: Modeling the impact of tailings and waste rock disposal on the Fly River system / Geoff Pickup and Yantao Cui; title: Floodplain inundation modeling and forecasting for the middle Fly / Geoff Pickup; title: Biogeochemistry of copper in the Fly River / Simon C. Apte; title: Speciation, bioavailabilty and toxicity of copper in the Fly River system / Jenny L. Stauber, Simon C. Apte and Nicola J. Rogers; title: The biology of barramundi (Lates calcarifer) in the Fly River system / Stephen J.M. Blaber, David A. Milton and John P. Salini; title: Use of changes in fish assemblages in the Fly River system, Papua New Guinea, to assess effects of the Ok Tedi Copper Mine / Andrew W. Storey ... [et al.]; title: Effects of mine-derived river bed aggradation on fish habitat of the Fly River, Papua New Guinea / Andrew W. Storey, Andrew R. Marshall and Markson Yarrao; title: Insects of the Fly River system / Max S. Moulds; title: Vegetation of the Ok Tedi-Fly River system / Monica T. Rau and Douglas P. Reagan; title: Fauna and food webs of the Fly River Basin / Douglas P. Reagan and Monica Rau; title: Development of aquatic food web models for the Fly River, Papua New Guinea, and their application in assessing impacts of the Ok Tedi Mine / Andrew W. Storey and Markson Yarrao.