Expression of active tectonics in erosional landscapes

E Kirby, KX Whipple - Journal of structural geology, 2012 - Elsevier
Understanding the manner and degree to which topography in active mountain ranges
reflects deformation of the Earth's surface remains a first order goal of tectonic …

Understanding tectonics from fluvial topography by using the stochastic‐threshold incision model: Theory and application to the Dadu River basin, eastern Tibetan …

Y Wang, D Zheng, H Zhang - Earth Surface Processes and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The flood distribution and bedrock incision threshold exert important influences on the
erosion efficiency, which can result into a nonlinear scaling between channel steepness …

Landscape response to lateral advection in convergent orogens over geologic time scales

PR Eizenhöfer, N McQuarrie, E Shelef… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Convergent orogens exhibit high elevations and relief, features characteristic of active rock
uplift, the latter influencing normalized channel steepness (Ksn). In systems with significant …

Channel profile response to abrupt increases in mountain uplift rates: Implications for Late Miocene to Pliocene acceleration of intracontinental extension in the …

Y Wang, D Zheng, H Zhang, J Yu, J Pang… - …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Cenozoic extension of the Qinling range-Weihe Graben system has occurred in response to
the uplift and growth of the Tibetan Plateau. Rapid exhumation of the northern Qinling range …

Quantitative analysis of planation surfaces of the upper Yangtze River in the Sichuan-Yunnan Region, Southwest China

F Liu, H Gao, B Pan, Z Li, H Su - Frontiers of Earth Science, 2019 - Springer
Identification of the planation surfaces (PSs) is key for utilizing them as a reference in
studying the long-term geomorphological evolution of the Upper Yangtze River Basin in the …

[HTML][HTML] Geomorphic evidence for enhanced Pliocene–Quaternary faulting in the northwestern Basin and Range

MA Ellis, JB Barnes, JP Colgan - Lithosphere, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Mountains in the US Basin and Range Province are similar in form, yet they have different
histories of deformation and uplift. Unfortunately, chronicling fault slip with techniques like …

Late Holocene rupture history of the Ash Hill fault, Eastern California Shear Zone, and the potential for seismogenic strain transfer between nearby faults

C Regalla, E Kirby, S Mahan… - Earth Surface …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how fault systems interact and transfer strain over seismogenic timescales
(seconds to ka) requires temporal records of past ruptures along adjacent and intersecting …

岷江上游流域裂点分布及成因分析

刘譞, 林舟, 丁超 - 高校地质学报, 2020 - geology.nju.edu.cn
均衡状态时的基岩河道纵剖面表现为平滑形态, 然而自然界的河道纵剖面常因地球各种内外动力
作用的影响而呈现出以裂点为特征的不均衡状态, 因此不均衡的河道剖面及裂点的特征可以用于 …

Forward and inverse models relating river long profile to monotonic step-changes in tectonic rock uplift rate history: A theoretical perspective under a nonlinear slope …

Y Wang, L Goren, D Zheng… - Earth Surface Dynamics …, 2021 - esurf.copernicus.org
The long profile of rivers is widely considered as a recorded of tectonic uplift rate.
Knickpoints form in response to rate changes and faster rates produce steeper channel …

Spatial and Temporal Landscape Responses to Progressive Tectonic Forcing along California Fault Systems

P Manopkawee - 2020 - ir.library.oregonstate.edu
Understanding the degree to which topography of erosional landscapes in active mountain
belts encode the rates and patterns of active deformation in the upper crust is a primary goal …