Erosion and Landscape Evolution. Anatomy of a Drainage System
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- Erosion and Landscape Evolution
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- Anatomy of a Drainage System
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- The Continental Divide, Colorado
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- The Ideal Stream Cycle (W.M. Davis, 1880) Not a Literal Time
Sequence Youth Maturity Old Age Rejuvenation
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- The Ideal Stream Cycle
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- Youthful Landscape, Utah
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- Young-Mature Landscape, California
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- Mature Landscape, Pennsylvania
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- Monadnock, Colorado
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- Monadnocks, Maine
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- Old Age Landscape, South America
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- Rejuvenation Some change causes stream to speed up and cut
deeper. Uplift of Land Lowering of Sea Level Greater stream flow
Stream valley takes on youthful characteristics but retains
features of older stages as well. Can happen at any point in the
cycle.
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- Rejuvenation
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- Rejuvenation, San Juan River, Utah
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- Machu Picchu, Peru
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- The Onset of Old Age? Indiana
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- Why the Stream Cycle Doesn't Explain Everything Changes in sea
level during the ice ages Most landscapes have been repeatedly
rejuvenated Seems to work best in stable interiors of Africa,
Australia and South America.
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- Superposed (Antecedent) Drainage Streams Cut Right Through High
Topography Crustal Uplift Across River Rejuvenation Buried
Ridge
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- The Ultimate Antecedent Drainage, India-Nepal- Tibet
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- Rejuvenated Peneplain
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- Devils Gap, Wyoming
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- The Huang He: Chinas Sorrow 1887: 2,000,000 dead 1931:
3,700,000 dead 1938: The Chinese dynamite levees to slow the
Japanese; half a million Chinese died.
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- River Diversions in the Caspian Region
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- Why is the Danube Blue?
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- Arid and Humid Weathering Compared Rain: Rare, May Be Seasonal,
Often Violent Soil: Thin or Absent Vegetation: Sparse-no Continuous
Cover Chemical Weathering: Weak Episodic Processes Dominate
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- Arid Erosion Cycle Alluvial Fans Playa Lakes Pediments
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- Alluvial Fans, Utah
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- Old Arid Landscape
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- Deltas
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- Deltas, Greece
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- Yosemite Falls, California
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- Niagara Falls
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- Evolution of Niagara Falls
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- Lakes Limited Lifetime Thousands - Millions of Yr. How They
Form: Grabens (Faulting) Tahoe 1600' Baikal 5600' Tanganyika 4000'
Scour Great Lakes to 1300' Great Slave L. 2000' Lake Winnipeg
Damming: Crustal movement, Landslide, etc. Volcanic Collapse -
Crater Lake Sinkholes Kettle Ponds
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- How Lakes Die Eutrophication Infilling - Only Way to Destroy
Very Deep Lakes Drainage at Outlet Climate Change