Drainage divide migration and implications for climate and biodiversity

C He, J Braun, H Tang, X Yuan… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Drainage divides separate Earth's surface into individual river basins. Divide migration
impacts the evolution of landforms, regional climate, ecosystems and biodiversity. In this …

Drainage network dynamics and knickpoint evolution in the Ebro and Duero basins: From endorheism to exorheism

L Struth, D Garcia-Castellanos, M Viaplana-Muzas… - Geomorphology, 2019 - Elsevier
The study of fluvial network rearrangement provides a key to understand past and future
landscape evolution. Large perturbations of hydrographic basins such as the change from …

Cross‐divide difference in channel‐head steady‐state elevation controls drainage‐divide migration

Y Ye, X Tan, C Zhou, S Bian, Y Liu… - Earth Surface Processes …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
It is generally agreed that the channel‐head steady‐state elevations (zs) across a drainage
divide are different when the drainage divide is moving. However, whether it is the hillslope …

Covariation of cross-divide differences in denudation rate and χ: Implications for drainage basin reorganization in the Qilian Shan, northeast Tibet

K Hu, X Fang, KL Ferrier, DE Granger, Z Zhao… - Earth and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Drainage divide migration is of wide interest because it drives changes in topography,
aquatic species habitat, and fluxes of water and nutrients across Earth's surface. To date …

Slab flattening and the rise of the Eastern Cordillera, Colombia

G Siravo, C Faccenna, M Gérault, TW Becker… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
The topographic growth of a mountain belt is commonly attributed to isostatic balance in
response to crustal and lithospheric thickening. However, deeper mantle processes may …

Caution on determining divide migration from cross‐divide contrast in χ

Y Wu, R Yang, C He, J He - Geological Journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The landscapes on Earth are shaped by the interaction of tectonics and erosion processes
and thus is a recorder for past tectonic and climatic histories. A recently proposed …

Tectonic geomorphology of the Serranía de San Lucas (Central Cordillera): regional implications for active tectonics and drainage rearrangement in the Northern …

H García-Delgado, F Velandia - Geomorphology, 2020 - Elsevier
We explore the structural and geomorphological evidence for recent tectonic activity in the
Serranía de San Lucas (San Lucas Range, SLR), the northern segment of the Central …

Erosion rates and sediment flux within the Potomac River basin quantified over millennial timescales using beryllium isotopes

EW Portenga, PR Bierman, CD Trodick… - GSA …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Beryllium isotopes measured in detrital river sediment are often used to estimate rates of
landscape change at a basin scale, but results from different beryllium isotope systems have …

Comparing morphological investigation with χ index and gilbert metrics for analysis of drainage rearrangement and divide migration in inland plateaus

MO Dal Pai, AAR Salgado, MV de Sordi… - Geomorphology, 2023 - Elsevier
Drainage rearrangements and consequently divide migration are important processes in the
dynamic evolution of landscapes. Two approaches have been used to identify, analyze, and …

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 …