Himalayan valley-floor widths controlled by tectonically driven exhumation

FJ Clubb, SM Mudd, TF Schildgen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Himalayan rivers transport around a gigaton of sediment annually to ocean basins.
Mountain valleys are an important component of this routing system: storage in these valleys …

Glacier–rock glacier interactions in the eastern Hindu Kush, Nuristan, Afghanistan [35.92, 71.13] in the period 1976–2019

W Brian Whalley - Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Landsystem relationships between glaciers and rock debris supply in a mountain landscape
domain,(), are described. Decimal latitude-longitude [dLL] geolocations are used to identify …

Diverse responses of alluvial rivers to periodic environmental change

F McNab, TF Schildgen, JM Turowski… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Alluvial rivers aggrade, incise, and adjust their sediment‐transport rates in response to
changing sediment and water supply. Fluvial landforms, such as river terraces, and …

A physics-based model for fluvial valley width

JM Turowski, A Bufe, S Tofelde - Earth Surface Dynamics, 2024 - esurf.copernicus.org
The width of fluvial valley floors is a key parameter to quantifying the morphology of
mountain regions. Valley floor width is relevant to diverse fields including sedimentology …

Quantifying the geomorphic effect of floods using satellite observations of river mobility

AS Leenman, LJ Slater, SJ Dadson… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Geomorphologists have long debated the relative importance of disturbance magnitude,
duration, and frequency in shaping landscapes. For river‐channel adjustment by floods …

Late Cenozoic alkali basalts and their interactions with the paleo-Hron River (Western Carpathians): New insights from geochronology and fluvial morphometric …

R Prokešová, M Danišík, M Fiebig, F Jourdan… - Geomorphology, 2024 - Elsevier
Sporadic pulses of basaltic volcanism in the Western Carpathians during the Late Miocene
to Middle/Late Pleistocene were contemporaneous with the formation of modern …

Rates of bedrock canyon incision by megafloods, Channeled Scabland, eastern Washington, USA

KE Lehnigk, IJ Larsen, MP Lamb… - Geological Society of …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Pleistocene outburst floods from the drainage of glacial Lake Missoula carved bedrock
canyons into the Columbia Plateau in eastern Washington, USA, forming the Channeled …

Observations and computational multi‐phase modelling in tropical river settings show complex channel changes downstream from rainfall‐triggered landslides

D Panici, GL Bennett, RJ Boothroyd… - Earth Surface …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Alluvial river channels respond to changes in sediment supply by adjusting their geometry.
Landslide sediment delivery and geomorphic response of river channels during floods are …

Effects of erosional resistance on bedrock channel occurrence and morphology: Examination of the Seo River catchment in South Korea

H Chen, J Byun - Geomorphology, 2023 - Elsevier
In tectonically stable regions, bedrock channels develop along deep and narrow valleys that
are usually associated with resistant lithology, which enables the transport capacity of these …

[HTML][HTML] Drainage reorganization induces deviations in the scaling between valley width and drainage area

E Harel, L Goren, O Crouvi, H Ginat… - Earth Surface …, 2022 - esurf.copernicus.org
The width of valleys and channels affects the hydrology, ecology, and geomorphic
functionality of drainage networks. In many studies, the width of valleys and/or channels (W) …