How concave are river channels?

SM Mudd, FJ Clubb, B Gailleton… - Earth Surface …, 2018 - esurf.copernicus.org
For over a century, geomorphologists have attempted to unravel information about
landscape evolution, and processes that drive it, using river profiles. Many studies have …

[HTML][HTML] MATLAB functions for extracting hypsometry, stream-length gradient index, steepness index, chi gradient of channel and swath profiles from digital elevation …

NK Jaiswara, SK Kotluri, P Pandey… - Applied Computing and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The landscape, developed by the interaction of geological processes, is represented by
Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) of various spatial resolutions. These DEMs can be …

Timing of river capture in major Yangtze River tributaries: Insights from sediment provenance and morphometric indices

N Fan, P Kong, JC Robl, H Zhou, X Wang, Z Jin, X Liu - Geomorphology, 2021 - Elsevier
The eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau represents one of the morphologically most active
regions on Earth, where the interplay of recent crustal deformation and subsequent fluvial …

Spatially variable increase in rock uplift in the northern US Cordillera recorded in the distribution of river knickpoints and incision depths

NA Mitchell, BJ Yanites - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Landscape evolution is driven by factors like tectonics and climate, and unraveling such
factors can reveal the history recorded in landscape morphology. The northern US …

An automated knickzone selection algorithm (KZ‐Picker) to analyze transient landscapes: Calibration and validation

AB Neely, B Bookhagen… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Streams commonly respond to base‐level fall by localizing erosion within steepened,
convex knickzone reaches. Localized incision causes knickzone reaches to migrate …

Dynamic divide migration as a response to asymmetric uplift: An example from the Zhongtiao Shan, North China

Q Su, X Wang, H Lu, H Xie - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Previous numerical–analytical approaches have suggested that the main range divide
prefers to migrate towards the high uplift flank in the asymmetric tectonic uplift pattern …

Struggles with stream power: Connecting theory across scales

JG Venditti, T Li, E Deal, E Dingle, M Church - Geomorphology, 2020 - Elsevier
Two empirically consistent explanations exist for the morphology and dynamics of bedrock
rivers. The stream power law appears to explain rates of rock incision at large scale (large …

Driving effects of dynamic geomorphologic environments on gravitational erosion hazards: a case of the Baihetan drainage area of the Jinsha River, China

Z Gu, X Yao, C Li, X Zhu - Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the …, 2023 - Springer
Exploring the long-term mechanism of hazard formation and identifying prospective hazard
areas is critical for human survival and the risk management of crucial engineering facilities …

The distribution of active rock uplift in the interior of the western Qilian Shan, NE Tibetan Plateau: Inference from bedrock channel profiles

Y Wang, D Zheng, H Zhang, C Li, L Xiao, Y Li, Y Hao - Tectonophysics, 2019 - Elsevier
The distribution of rock uplift rates in the interior of the western Qilian Shan is not yet fully
resolved, which limits our knowledge about the uplift pattern and landscape evolution in the …

The methods and program implementation for river longitudinal profile analysis—RiverProAnalysis, a set of open-source functions based on the Matlab platform

Y Wang, D Zheng, H Zhang - Science China Earth Sciences, 2022 - Springer
River is one of the geomorphic units that are the most sensitive to tectonic activity, of which
the longitudinal profile serves as a key archieve to record information on active tectonics …