The shaping of erosional landscapes by internal dynamics

JS Scheingross, AB Limaye, SW McCoy… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Erosional landscapes transport sediment downstream, host natural hazards and are
geologically active. While perturbations in external forcing, particularly climate and tectonics …

Fluvial archives, a valuable record of vertical crustal deformation

A Demoulin, A Mather, A Whittaker - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
The study of drainage network response to uplift is important not only for understanding river
system dynamics and associated channel properties and fluvial landforms, but also for …

Dynamic reorganization of river basins

SD Willett, SW McCoy, JT Perron, L Goren, CY Chen - Science, 2014 - science.org
Introduction River networks, the backbone of most landscapes on Earth, collect and
transport water, sediment, organic matter, and nutrients from upland mountain regions to the …

Timescales of landscape response to divide migration and drainage capture: Implications for the role of divide mobility in landscape evolution

KX Whipple, AM Forte, RA DiBiase… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Efforts to extract information about climate and tectonics from topography commonly assume
that river networks are static. Drainage divides can migrate through time, however, and …

The erosional signature of drainage divide motion along the Blue Ridge Escarpment

MF Stokes, IJ Larsen, SL Goldberg… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The planform rearrangement of river basins is recognized as an important process for
landscape evolution. The boundaries of river basins can shift either through gradual …

High magnitude and rapid incision from river capture: Rhine River, Switzerland

BJ Yanites, TA Ehlers, JK Becker… - Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Landscape evolution is controlled by the development and organization of drainage basins.
As a landscape evolves, drainage reorganization events can occur via river capture or …

Scale (s) matter: Deconstructing an area of endemism for Middle American freshwater fishes

DJ Elías, CD McMahan, WA Matamoros… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The processes that generate biodiversity occur at finer scales than are often studied,
particularly in freshwater systems of the northern Neotropics. We investigate whether fine …

Effects of river capture and sediment flux on the evolution of plateaus: insights from numerical modeling and river profile analysis in the upper Blue Nile catchment

E Giachetta, SD Willett - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Ethiopian Highlands, with up to 1,500-m-deep canyons surrounded by low
relief plateau surfaces, are one of the most spectacular examples of transient fluvial …

Relict landscape resistance to dissection by upstream migrating knickpoints

GY Brocard, JK Willenbring, TE Miller… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Expanses of subdued topographies are common at high elevation in mountain ranges. They
are often interpreted as relict landscapes and are expected to be replaced by steeper …

Drainage reorganization during mountain building in the river system of the Eastern Cordillera of the Colombian Andes

L Struth, J Babault, A Teixell - Geomorphology, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Eastern Cordillera of Colombia is a thick-skinned thrust-fold belt that is
characterized by two topographic domains:(1) the axial zone, a high altitude plateau (the …