Analysis of drainage-basin symmetry as a rapid technique to identify areas of possible Quaternary tilt-block tectonics: an example from the Mississippi Embayment

RT Cox - Geological society of america bulletin, 1994 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
There is a coincidence of seismicity and major river valleys in the southwestern Mississippi
Embayment that suggests control of the drainage pattern by northwest-trending faults …

Identification of possible Quaternary deformation in the northeastern Mississippi Embayment using quantitative geomorphic analysis of drainage-basin asymmetry

RT Cox, RB Van Arsdale… - Geological Society of …, 2001 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
To investigate neotectonism in the Mississippi Embayment east of the New Madrid seismic
zone, we identified geomorphic domains that show evidence of ground tilting during …

Regional tilt patterns of late Cenozoic basin-range fault blocks, western United States

JH Stewart - Geological Society of America Bulletin, 1980 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Large regions in which major late Cenozoic basin-range fault blocks are consistently tilted
are recognized in the western United States. The pattern of tilt domains is characterized by …

Channel migration and meander-bend curvature in the lower Mississippi River prior to major human modification

PF Hudson, RH Kesel - Geology, 2000 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Channel migration and meander-bend morphology are examined for the lower Mississippi
River between 1877 and 1924, prior to channel cutoffs, revetments, and change in sediment …

Regional characteristics, tilt domains, and extensional history of the late Cenozoic Basin and Range province, western North America

JH Stewart, JE Faulds - SPECIAL PAPERS-GEOLOGICAL …, 1998 - books.google.com
ABSTRACT The Basin and Range province covers a large region of western North America
and contains diverse late Cenozoic extensional structures, including metamorphic core …

The origin and tectonic significance of asymmetrical meander‐belts

MR Leeder, JAN Alexander - Sedimentology, 1987 - Wiley Online Library
In the Hebgen lake area of SW Montana, the Madison and South Fork Rivers occupy the
northeast sides of their respective meander‐belts. The form of the abandoned meander …

Holocene meander-belt evolution in an active extensional basin, southwestern Montana

J Alexander, JS Bridge, MR Leeder… - Journal of …, 1994 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Lateral migration fluvial meander belts preserves wider than normal coarse-sediment
bodies, asymmetric meander belts, that have a complex architecture recording the history of …

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 …

Development of mountainous topography in the Basin Ranges, USA

Densmore - Basin Research, 2001 - earthdoc.org
We use the landcape evolution model Zscape to explore quantitatively the development of
mountainous topography in the Basin and Range province (formerly the Basin Ranges) …

Mississippi River mouth processes: effluent dynamics and morphologic development

LD Wright, JM Coleman - The Journal of Geology, 1974 - journals.uchicago.edu
Repeated observations from the mouths of the Mississippi River from 1968 to 1973 indicate
that the relative contributions of outflow inertia, turbulence, bottom friction, buoyancy, and …