Bedrock channel adjustment to tectonic forcing: Implications for predicting river incision rates

AC Whittaker, PA Cowie, M Attal, GE Tucker… - …, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present detailed data of channel morphology for a river undergoing a transient response
to active normal faulting where excellent constraints exist on spatial and temporal variations …

Expression of active tectonics in erosional landscapes

E Kirby, KX Whipple - Journal of structural geology, 2012 - Elsevier
Understanding the manner and degree to which topography in active mountain ranges
reflects deformation of the Earth's surface remains a first order goal of tectonic …

Tectonic controls upon drainage basin development, river channel migration and alluvial architecture: implications for hydrocarbon reservoir development and …

MR Leeder - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 1993 - lyellcollection.org
Hydrocarbon reservoirs of fluviatile origin are the product of a number of geological
processes acting on a variety of scales. Reservoir characterization must be approached …

Geomorphic observations of rivers in the Oregon Coast Range from a regional reconnaissance perspective

S Rhea - Geomorphology, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract Changes in long profile, gradient, gradient index, pseudo-hypsometric integral,
valley incision, and sinuosity fractal dimension for rivers in western Oregon were studied to …

Interactions of growing folds and coeval depositional systems

D Burbank, A Meigs, N Brozović - Basin research, 1996 - earthdoc.org
Responses of both modern and ancient fluvial depositional systems to growing folds can be
interpreted in terms of interactions among competing controlling variables which can be …

Channel width response to differential uplift

CB Amos, DW Burbank - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The role of channel width and slope adjustments to differential uplift in rivers within actively
deforming terrains remains contentious. Here high‐resolution topographic surveying of …

Downstream changes in alluvial architecture; an exploration of controls on channel-stacking patterns

PL Heller, C Paola - Journal of Sedimentary Research, 1996 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Various, but related, models have been proposed to explain the architectural arrangement of
channel stacking patterns in avulsion-dominated alluvial sequences. The early models …

Experimental test of tectonic controls on three-dimensional alluvial facies architecture

TA Hickson, BA Sheets, C Paola… - Journal of …, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In an extended series of papers by M. Leeder, JRL Allen, JS Bridge, J. Alexander, and
others, the depositional stacking patterns of channel-belt deposits were related to tectonic …

New constraints on sediment-flux–dependent river incision: Implications for extracting tectonic signals from river profiles

PA Cowie, AC Whittaker, M Attal, G Roberts… - …, 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
We present new field data from rivers draining across active normal faults that incise across
the same lithology at the fault, have been subjected to similar climatic regimes and tectonic …

Fluvial geomorphic elements in modern sedimentary basins and their potential preservation in the rock record: a review

GS Weissmann, AJ Hartley, LA Scuderi, GJ Nichols… - Geomorphology, 2015 - Elsevier
Since tectonic subsidence in sedimentary basins provides the potential for long-term facies
preservation into the sedimentary record, analysis of geomorphic elements in modern …