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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE
卷 121, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2015JF003747
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- Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland
- NERC [NE/J009970/1, NE/J500021/1]
- U.S. Army Research Office [W911NF-13-1-0478]
- NERC [NE/J009970/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [1272343, NE/J009970/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Earth Sciences [1339015] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Drainage density is a fundamental landscape metric describing the extent of the fluvial network. We compare the relationship between drainage density (D-d) and erosion rate (E) using the Channel-Hillslope Integrated Landscape Development (CHILD) numerical model. We find that varying the channel slope exponent (n) in detachment-limited fluvial incision models controls the relationship between D-d and E, with n> 1 resulting in increasing D-d with E if all other parameters are held constant. This result is consistent when modeling both linear and nonlinear hillslope sediment flux. We also test the relationship between D-d and E in five soil-mantled landscapes throughout the USA: Feather River, CA; San Gabriel Mountains, CA; Boulder Creek, CO; Guadalupe Mountains, NM; and Bitterroot National Forest, ID. For two of these field sites we compare D-d to cosmogenic radionuclide (CRN)-derived erosion rates, and for each site we use mean hilltop curvature as a proxy for erosion rate where CRN-derived erosion rates are not available. We find that there is a significant positive relationship between D-d, E, and hilltop curvature across every site, with the exception of the San Gabriel Mountains, CA. This relationship is consistent with an n exponent greater than 1, suggesting that at higher erosion rates, the transition between advective and diffusive processes occurs at smaller contributing areas in soil-mantled landscapes.
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