Long river profiles, tectonism, and eustasy: A guide to interpreting fluvial terraces

DJ Merritts, KR Vincent, EE Wohl - Journal of Geophysical …, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
Along three rivers at the Mendocino triple junction, northern California, strath, cut, and fill
terraces have formed in response to tectonic and eustatic processes. Detailed surveying and …

Fluvial terraces of the lower Susquehanna River

FJ Pazzaglia, TW Gardner - Geomorphology, 1993 - Elsevier
Fluvial terraces of the lower Susquehanna River offer a unique opportunity to investigate the
late stage geologic and geomorphic evolution of the US Atlantic passive margin …

Geomorphic and sedimentary response of rivers to tectonic deformation: a brief review and critique of a tool for recognizing subtle epeirogenic deformation in modern …

J Holbrook, SA Schumm - Tectonophysics, 1999 - Elsevier
Rivers are extremely sensitive to subtle changes in their grade caused by tectonic tilting. As
such, recognition of tectonic tilting effects on rivers, and their resultant sediments, can be a …

Geomorphic response of coastal streams to low, intermediate, and high rates of uplift, Medocino triple junction region, northern California

D Merritts, KR Vincent - Geological Society of America …, 1989 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Analysis of three-dimensional morphological properties of 24 coastal drainage
basins that have evolved in areas of low (< 1 m/1,000 yr), intermediate (1-3 m/1,000 yr), and …

Channel response to tectonic forcing: field analysis of stream morphology and hydrology in the Mendocino triple junction region, northern California

NP Snyder, KX Whipple, GE Tucker, DJ Merritts - Geomorphology, 2003 - Elsevier
An empirical calibration of the shear stress model for bedrock incision is presented, using
field and hydrologic data from a series of small, coastal drainage basins near the Mendocino …

Tectonics from topography: Procedures, promise, and pitfalls

C Wobus, KX Whipple, E Kirby, N Snyder, J Johnson… - 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
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Landscape Evolution | GeoScienceWorld Books | GeoScienceWorld Skip to Main Content …

River response to baselevel change: implications for sequence stratigraphy

SA Schumm - The Journal of Geology, 1993 - journals.uchicago.edu
Baselevel is the imaginary horizontal level or surface to which sub-aerial erosion proceeds.
It is sea level. Controversy surrounds the effect of baselevel change on river behavior, the …

Late Neogene and Quaternary landscape evolution of the northern California Coast Ranges: Evidence for Mendocino triple junction tectonics

J Lock, H Kelsey, K Furlong… - Geological Society of …, 2006 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A landscape records the surface response to tectonics at time scales intermediate between
short time-scale information derived from seismic imaging and global positioning systems …

Bedrock fluvial incision and longitudinal profile development over geologic time scales determined by fluvial terraces

FJ Pazzaglia, TW Gardner… - Geophysical Monograph …, 1998 - books.google.com
Bedrock fluvial incision and longitudinal profile development over geologic time scales
determined by fluvial terraces Page 215 Bedrock Fluvial Incision and Longitudinal Profile …

Geomorphic/tectonic control of sediment discharge to the ocean: the importance of small mountainous rivers

JD Milliman, JPM Syvitski - The journal of Geology, 1992 - journals.uchicago.edu
Analysis of data from 280 rivers discharging to the ocean indicates that sediment
loads/yields are a log-linear function of basin area and maximum elevation of the river basin …