Reconstitution des débits des crues artificielles destinées au flottage du bois dans le massif du Morvan (centre de la France, XVIe-XIXe siècles) d’après les documents d’archive et la géomorphologie de terrain

Poux, Anne-Sophie; Gob, Frédéric; Jacob-Rousseau, Nicolas

doi:10.4000/geomorphologie.9351

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“…Timber, originating from the Morvan Forest, was first conveyed on small tributaries, whose discharges were artificially increased by the operation of specific headwater ponds, during winter as free logs around 1 m (3.5 feet long) (fig. 27.2) (Poux et al 2011). The logs were then re-assembled and finally transported to Paris as timber rafts (Bruley 1995).…”

Section: Historical Uses Of the Seine Rivermentioning

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The Seine, the River dedicated to Paris

Lestel¹,

Meybeck²,

Belliard³

2023

River Culture: Life as a Dance to the Rhythm of the Waters

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In France, the Seine River was already being used as a waterway some 6000 years ago. It has favored the development of Paris since the Romans founded the city as Lutetia. In the Middle Ages, the transportation of timber rafts and food supplies on the river, river mills, and direct use of the water supply sustained the growth of the capital city. New river uses were developed in the mid-19 th century: the river was gradually channelized and equipped with locks for navigation and received insufficiently treated urban wastewater. During the same period, the Seine riverscape was immortalized by impressionist painters. From 1870 to 1970, the river quality downstream of Paris continued to worsen in a context of urban development: few fish species survived, due to severe hypoxia in the Lower Seine, until a giant wastewater treatment plant, Seine-Aval, was constructed in the 1940s-1990s. This effort led to an improved basic environmental quality in the 1990s, which allowed the gradual restoration of fish populations downstream of Paris. The longitudinal and transversal connectivity of the river was again reduced after World War II: major reservoirs were built in the headwaters for flood control and sustaining low flows in the river reach within Paris, and the original floodplain wetlands were transformed into several hundred artificial sand pits. Today, migratory fishes are now gradually returning, including salmon in the lower part of the river, thanks to specific fishways which partially restore migration pathways. From 1960 to 2010, Parisians had very little contact with their river: fluvial navigation, flood control, sand extraction, river bank car traffic, and poor water quality were the limiting factors. The inscription of the banks of the Seine in Paris by UNESCO on the World Heritage list in 1991, signaled a reversed trend in the expectations of the riverside residents concerning their river. Associations and officials have since requested the ecological restoration of urban rivers, including the Seine, and the conservation of the few remaining natural wetlands. Recreational amenities were re-established from the 2000s onwards, and the swimming competitions, planned for the Paris Olympic Games in 2024, are a driver to reach a better bacteriological river quality. However, the Seine River, impacted by a metropole of seven million people and its related impacts, is set to remain a highly modified river, and will continue to be regulated to provide the economic functionalities and restored to provide the ecological functionalities expected today; coordinated governance at the scale of the whole river basin, successful in terms of water quality, has yet to be realized in other domains such as flood security or habitat restoration.

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Section: Historical Uses Of the Seine Rivermentioning

confidence: 99%

The Seine, the River dedicated to Paris

Lestel¹,

Meybeck²,

Belliard³

2023

River Culture: Life as a Dance to the Rhythm of the Waters

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“…Between the middle of the 16 th century and the early 20 th century, the river and its headwater tributaries were used for log driving. The significant geomorphological effects of log driving on the upper Yonne river were studied and characterized by Poux et al (2011) and Jacob-Rousseau and Gob (2020). To give an example, management of the river for the log driving industry resulted in the bed degradation of the head water streams and in the aggradation of the upper Yonne river in its middle reach.…”

Section: The Upper Yonne River and The Pierre Glissotte Hydroelectric...mentioning

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“…For practical reasons, it was impossible to keep fixed GCPs in the field but GCPs were surveyed by a Trimble Total Station. Particular attention was paid to respecting a homogeneous spatial distribution of GCPs (Rangel et al, 2018), and 30% were used as independent checkpoints (Sana-Ablanedo et al, 2018). The characteristics of each flight session and the associated errors after bundle adjustment are given in Table 3.…”

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Morpho-sedimentary dynamics associated to dam removal. The Pierre Glissotte dam (central France)

Gilet

Gob

Virmoux

et al. 2021

Science of The Total Environment

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“…Moreover, a specialization in animal breeding led to intensive grazing and wetland drainage. The landscape was also managed for firewood production, provided to Paris by the means of fluvial transport (Morvan Massif: Benoit et al, 2004;Poux et al, 2011), or for the delivery of softwood lumber products to the Navy Shipyards of Toulon (M ezenc Massif: Bartoli and Boissier, 2018).…”

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From natural to cultural mires during the last 15 ka years: An integrated approach comparing 14C ages on basal peat layers with geomorphological, palaeoecological and archaeological data (Eastern Massif Central, France)

Dendievel

Jouffroy‐Bapicot

Argant

et al. 2020

Quaternary Science Reviews

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This paper studies mire initiation modalities from the Late-Glacial to the Holocene by comparing radiocarbon ages on basal peat layers (112 sites from the Eastern French Massif Central e EFMC) with long-term land cover changes. We developed a semi-quantitative method based on the degree of openness and on Anthropogenic Impact Factors (AIF scores) from palaeoecological data (mire and lake records). Archaeological information was also considered to evaluate human impact. We compared regional mire development trends with datasets from Northern Europe, Siberia, Alaska and Canada, and with global CH 4 emission. Heterogenous cases of mire initiation were highlighted during the last 15 ka years in the EMFC. From 15 to 11.7 ka cal. BP, some mires and histic horizons occurred, although further research is needed to better understand these peat accumulation phases. Related to the Early Holocene warming, a mire generation established by terrestrialization, in the southern EFMC where geomorphology favoured fens. Bogs also formed by paludification in the whole area between 10 and 7 ka cal. BP. Then, various cases of mire initiation were found from 4.4 to 2.4 ka cal. BP. The high number of mires established since 2.4 ka cal. BP could be related to major anthropogenic changes, indirectly favouring fens (in former ponds for instance) or small bogs (at the back of roads, walls or in abandoned drainage systems). This last generation was typical of Western European mountains and implied that moderate human impact may also produce socio-ecosystems with high ecological value.

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Reconstitution des débits des crues artificielles destinées au flottage du bois dans le massif du Morvan (centre de la France, XVIe-XIXe siècles) d’après les documents d’archive et la géomorphologie de terrain

Cited by 10 publications

References 10 publications

The Seine, the River dedicated to Paris

The Seine, the River dedicated to Paris

Morpho-sedimentary dynamics associated to dam removal. The Pierre Glissotte dam (central France)

From natural to cultural mires during the last 15 ka years: An integrated approach comparing 14C ages on basal peat layers with geomorphological, palaeoecological and archaeological data (Eastern Massif Central, France)

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