Understanding Continental‐Scale Landscape Evolution from a Process-Based Perspective

Session ID#: 121229

Session Description:
This session seeks to explore current research focused on understanding continental‐scale landscape evolution from a process-based and quantitative perspective.

Landscape evolution is controlled by a number of drivers including deep Earth dynamics, tectonics, erosion and deposition, and climate. Earth’s modern landscapes are becoming increasingly well characterized due to the proliferation and analysis of big data. Moreover, much progress has also been made transforming these insights into the potential for quantitative and predictive insights into the rock record, but this remains a major challenge that requires integration of field data, numerical models, and experimental results.

We invite contributions based on observation of field and remotely-sensed data as well as analogue and numerical modelling. We aim to cover a large range of forcing mechanisms and processes that operate on multiple time scales from variations in sediment flux related to mountain building events to the morphological and stratigraphic evolution of depositional systems.

Index Terms:

1826 Geomorphology: hillslope [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1862 Sediment transport [HYDROLOGY]
4219 Continental shelf and slope processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL]


Primary Convener:  Sara Morón, University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Camperdown, NSW, Australia
Conveners:  Elizabeth A Hajek, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Geosciences, University Park, PA, United States, Michael D Blum, The University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States and Michael Gurnis, California Institute of Technology, Seismological Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sara Morón, University of Sydney, School of Geosciences, Camperdown, NSW, Australia