Drainage divide migration and implications for climate and biodiversity

C He, J Braun, H Tang, X Yuan… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Drainage divides separate Earth's surface into individual river basins. Divide migration
impacts the evolution of landforms, regional climate, ecosystems and biodiversity. In this …

Paleogeographic reconstructions using QGIS: Introducing Terra Antiqua plugin and its application to 30 and 50 Ma maps

J Aminov, G Dupont-Nivet, D Ruiz, B Gailleton - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Paleogeographic maps play a central integrating role across all the disciplines of the Earth
System Sciences. They increasingly serve as boundary conditions for climate, earth, and life …

[HTML][HTML] Western US intraplate deformation controlled by the complex lithospheric structure

Z Cao, L Liu - Nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The western United States is one of Earth's most tectonically active regions,
characterized by extensive crustal deformation through intraplate earthquakes and geodetic …

Rheological heterogeneities control the non‐progressive uplift of the young Iranian plateau

Y Gao, L Chen, J Yang, K Wang - Geophysical Research …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Iranian plateau is at the early stage of plateau development and intracontinental
deformation in response to the Arabia‐Eurasia collision. Its compressive deformation is …

[HTML][HTML] UnTDIP: Unsupervised neural network for DEM super-resolution integrating terrain knowledge and deep prior

X Zhang, W Zhang, S Guo, P Zhang, H Fang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are essential for comprehending the three-
dimensional (3D) structure of the Earth's surface. When the resolution of airborne or satellite …

Tectonic extension and paleoelevation influence mammalian diversity dynamics in the Basin and Range Province of western North America

TM Smiley, A Bahadori, ET Rasbury, WE Holt… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Landscape properties have a profound influence on the diversity and distribution of biota,
with present-day biodiversity hot spots occurring in topographically complex regions …

Deciphering differential exhumation in the Gangdese orogen in southern Tibet using exposed porphyry alteration systems and geomorphic analysis

H Fu, G Kereszturi, Q Cheng… - … Society of America …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Topography and exhumation vary strongly in the Tibetan Plateau, reflecting different
geodynamics and surface processes. The Gangdese orogen in southern Tibet is …

The Impact of Climate‐Driven Lake Level Changes on Mantle Melting in Continental Rifts

L Xue, JD Muirhead, R Moucha… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate cycles fundamentally control surface processes that affect the distribution of water
and sediment, and their associated loads, across the Earth's surface. Here, we use a …

[HTML][HTML] Soil erosion quantification using Machine Learning in sub-watersheds of Northern Portugal

S Folharini, A Vieira, A Bento-Gonçalves, S Silva… - Hydrology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Protected areas (PA) play an important role in minimizing the effects of soil erosion in
watersheds. This study evaluated the performance of machine learning models, specifically …

[HTML][HTML] The role of gravitational body forces in the development of metamorphic core complexes

A Bahadori, WE Holt, J Austermann, L Campbell… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Within extreme continental extension areas, ductile middle crust is exhumed at the surface
as metamorphic core complexes. Sophisticated quantitative models of extreme extension …