期刊
EARTH SURFACE PROCESSES AND LANDFORMS
卷 46, 期 11, 页码 2248-2263出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/esp.5172
关键词
bedrock erosion mechanisms; bedrock rivers; lateral bedrock erosion; luminescence dating; valley widening
资金
- National Science Foundation [1914566]
- National Science Foundation EPSCoR [OIA-1833025]
- Geologic Society of America Graduate Student Research Grant
- Division Of Earth Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1914566] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
This study presents direct field measurements of modern lateral and vertical bedrock erosion, as well as optically stimulated luminescence ages of fluvial material at Kings Creek. The data reveal that lateral bedrock erosion outpaced vertical incision during the study period.
In this study, we present direct field measurements of modern lateral and vertical bedrock erosion during a 2-year study period, and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) ages of fluvial material capping a flat bedrock surface at Kings Creek located in northeast Kansas, USA. These data provide insight into rates and mechanisms of bedrock erosion and valley-widening in a heterogeneously layered limestone-shale landscape. Lateral bedrock erosion outpaced vertical incision during our 2-year study period. Modern erosion rates, measured at erosion pins in limestone and shale bedrock reveal that shale erosion rate is a function of wetting and drying cycles, while limestone erosion rate is controlled by discharge and fracture spacing. Variability in fracture spacing amongst field sites controls the size of limestone block collapse into the stream, which either allowed continued lateral erosion following rapid detachment and transport of limestone blocks, or inhibited lateral erosion due to limestone blocks that protected the valley wall from further erosion. The OSL ages of fluvial material sourced from the strath terrace were older than any material previously dated at our study site and indicate that Kings Creek was actively aggrading and incising throughout the late Pleistocene. Coupling field measurements and observations with ages of fluvial terraces can be useful to investigate the timing and processes linked to how bedrock rivers erode laterally over time to form wide bedrock valleys.
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