Orogen-scale drainage network evolution and response to erodibility changes: Insights from numerical experiments

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1259-1268

  Giachetta, Emanuele ^a,b   Refice, Alberto ^c   Capolongo, Domenico ^a   Gasparini, Nicole M ^d   Pazzaglia, Frank J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

^d Tulane University   (United States)

^e LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bedrock erodibility; Catchments reorganization; Landscape evolution; SIGNUM; Valley spacing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EROSION; LANDFORMS; RUNOFF;

ERODIBILITY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; NETWORK ORGANIZATION; NETWORK REORGANIZATION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SIGNUM; STEADY-STATE VALUES; VALLEY SPACING;

CATCHMENTS;

BEDROCK; CATCHMENT; DRAINAGE NETWORK; ERODIBILITY; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MOUNTAIN REGION; OROGENY; VALLEY;

EID: 84903906301     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3579     Document Type: Article

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