期刊
GEOMORPHOLOGY
卷 71, 期 3-4, 页码 402-423出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.04.013
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Southern Alps; New Zealand; denudation; terrain analysis; digital elevation models; neotectonics
The Southern Alps of New Zealand are the topographic expression of active oblique continental convergence of the Australian and Pacific plates. Despite inferred high rates of tectonic and climatic forcing, the pattern of differential uplift and erosion remains uncertain. We use a 25-m DEM to conduct a regional-scale relief analysis of a 250-km long strip of the western Southern Alps (WSA). We present a preliminary map of regional erosion and denudation by overlaying mean basin relief, a modelled stream-power erosion index, river incision rates, historic landslide denudation rates, and landslide density. The interplay between strong tectonic and climatic forcing has led to relief production that locally attains similar to 2 knit in major catchments, with mean values of 0.65-0.68 km. Interpolation between elevations of major catchment divides indicates potential removal of 10(1)-10(3) km(3), or a mean basin relief of 0.51-0.85 km in the larger catchments. Local relief and inferred river incision rates into bedrock are highest about 50-67% of the distance between the Alpine fault and the main divide. The mean regional relief variability is +/- 0.5 km. Local relief, valley cross-sectional area, and catchment width correlate moderately with catchment area, and also reach maximum values between the range front and the divide. Hypsometric integrals show scale dependence, and together with hypsometric curves, are insufficient to clearly differentiate between glacial and fluvial dominated basins. Mean slope angle in the WSA (psi =30 degrees) is lower where major longitudinal valleys and extensive ice cover occur, and may be an insensitive measure of regional relief Modal slope angle is strikingly uniform throughout the WSA ( phi = 38-40 degrees), and may record adjustment to runoff and landsliding. Both psi and phi show non-linear relationships with elevation, which we attribute to dominant geomorphic process domains, such as fluvial processes in low-altitude valley trains, surface runoff and frequent landsliding on montane hillslopes, relief dampening by glaciers, and rock fall/avalanching on steep main-divide slopes. (c) 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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