Erosion and Landscape Evolution. Anatomy of a Drainage System.

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Erosion and Landscape Evolution

Anatomy of a Drainage System

The Continental Divide, Colorado

The Ideal Stream Cycle (W.M. Davis, 1880) Not a Literal Time Sequence Youth Maturity Old Age Rejuvenation

The Ideal Stream Cycle

Youthful Landscape, Utah

Young-Mature Landscape, California

Mature Landscape, Pennsylvania

Monadnock, Colorado

Monadnocks, Maine

Old Age Landscape, South America

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.

Rejuvenation

Rejuvenation, San Juan River, Utah

Machu Picchu, Peru

The Onset of Old Age? Indiana

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.

Superposed (Antecedent) Drainage Streams Cut Right Through High Topography Crustal Uplift Across River Rejuvenation Buried Ridge

The Ultimate Antecedent Drainage, India-Nepal- Tibet

Rejuvenated Peneplain

Devil’s Gap, Wyoming

The Huang He: “China’s 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.

River Diversions in the Caspian Region

Why is the Danube Blue?

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

Arid Erosion Cycle Alluvial Fans Playa Lakes Pediments

Alluvial Fans, Utah

Old Arid Landscape

Deltas

Deltas, Greece

Yosemite Falls, California

Niagara Falls

Evolution of Niagara Falls

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

How Lakes Die Eutrophication Infilling - Only Way to Destroy Very Deep Lakes Drainage at Outlet Climate Change