Tectonic and climatic controls of alluvial-fan size and source-catchment relief

Autor:	Meagan E. Verdeyen, W. Brian Dade
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Hydrology geography Tectonics geography.geographical_feature_category Drainage basin Alluvial fan Geology Subsidence Precipitation Mars Exploration Program Structural basin
Zdroj:	Journal of the Geological Society. 164:353-358
ISSN:	2041-479X 0016-7649
DOI:	10.1144/0016-76492006-039
Popis:	The geometries of alluvial fans and their upland catchments subject to known rates of basin subsidence V and upland precipitation P , respectively, are compared with predictions from a quantitative analysis of an idealized landscape. We find that the dimensionless ratio V / P explains systematic trends in relative fan size and source catchment relief previously reported from environmentally wide-ranging regions worldwide, and contributes to the interpretation of recently reported observations of fan-like phenomena on Mars.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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