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Criteria and Tools for Determining Drainage Divide Stability

Criteria and Tools for Determining Drainage Divide Stability

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Authors

Adam Matthew Forte , Kelin X. Whipple

Abstract

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. Additionally, many common topographic analyses fundamentally assume that river network topology and divide locations are largely static, allowing channel profile form to be interpreted in terms of spatio-temporal patterns of rock uplift rate relative to base level, climate, or rock properties. Recently however, it has been suggested that drainage divides are more mobile than previously thought and that divide mobility, and resulting changes in drainage area, could potential...  more

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31223/osf.io/anr29

Subjects

Earth Sciences, Geomorphology, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Keywords

drainage divide stability; topographic analysis

Dates

Published: 2017-12-09 16:44

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CC BY Attribution 4.0 International