Geomorphic complexity and the case for topographic rejuvenation of the Appalachian Mountains

JA Spotila, PS Prince - Geomorphology, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite vast scientific inquiry, the evolution of Appalachian Mountain topography in eastern
North America has yet to be robustly explained. After a century and a half of investigation …

Criteria and tools for determining drainage divide stability

AM Forte, KX Whipple - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2018 - Elsevier
Watersheds are the fundamental organizing units in landscapes and thus the controls on
drainage divide location and mobility are an essential facet of landscape evolution …

Erosion of heterogeneous rock drives diversification of Appalachian fishes

MF Stokes, D Kim, SF Gallen, E Benavides, BP Keck… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The high levels of biodiversity supported by mountains suggest a possible link between
geologic processes and biological evolution. Freshwater biodiversity is high not only in …

Rock strength and structural controls on fluvial erodibility: Implications for drainage divide mobility in a collisional mountain belt

JR Zondervan, M Stokes, SJ Boulton, MW Telfer… - Earth and Planetary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Numerical model simulations and experiments have suggested that when migration of the
main drainage divide occurs in a mountain belt, it can lead to the rearrangement of river …

Geometric disequilibrium of river basins produces long-lived transient landscapes

HW Beeson, SW McCoy, A Keen-Zebert - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Although equilibrium has long been considered the attractor state for landscapes, the time
required to reach equilibrium or even the possibility of reaching equilibrium is still debated …

[HTML][HTML] 常山港流域岩性对地貌演化的控制

吴运鹏, 杨蓉 - 第四纪研究, 2021 - dsjyj.com.cn
吴运鹏, 杨蓉. 常山港流域岩性对地貌演化的控制[J]. 第四纪研究, 2021, 41 (6): 1574-1583. doi:
10.11928/j. issn. 1001-7410.2021. 06.06引用本文: 吴运鹏, 杨蓉. 常山港流域岩性对地貌演化 …

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 …

The dynamics of channel slope, width, and sediment in actively eroding bedrock river systems

BJ Yanites - Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of rivers in eroding landscapes plays a key role in determining landscape
relief and modulating climate‐tectonic interactions. A common approach to quantifying river …

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 …

Sediment cover modulates landscape erosion patterns and channel steepness in layered rocks: Insights from the SPACE model

GJ Guryan, JPL Johnson… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Erosional perturbations from changes in climate or tectonics are recorded in the profiles of
bedrock rivers, but these signals can be challenging to unravel in settings with non‐uniform …