Quantifying the drivers of landscape evolution across spatial and temporal scales

Session ID#: 122985

Session Description:
The morphology of river systems is dictated by various processes integrated over a variety of spatio-temporal scales, often competing and superimposed on each other. One way to deconvolve the influence of driving forces of landscape change—including tectonics, climate, lithology, as well as internal dynamics such as drainage capture, among others—is to develop quantitative constraints on the magnitude, rate, and scale of surface change. Quantifying how these processes shape landforms is crucial for modeling past and future landscapes. This session welcomes contributions using a wide variety of interdisciplinary approaches from physical experiments, field work, numerical modeling, geochronology, and remote sensing analyses, with a focus on constraining landscape change from global- to grain-scale. We look to build and foster a diverse, community-wide effort to understand what dictates the underlying driving forces of landscape evolution through time and space.
Index Terms:

1199 General or miscellaneous [GEOCHRONOLOGY]
1699 General or miscellaneous [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1899 General or miscellaneous [HYDROLOGY]
5415 Erosion and weathering [PLANETARY SCIENCES: SOLID SURFACE PLANETS]


Primary Convener:  Victoria Milanez Milanez Fernandes, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Gaia Stucky de Quay, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States and Beatrix Muriel Heller, University Paris Sud, GEOPS, Orsay, France
Primary Liaison:  Victoria Milanez Milanez Fernandes, Imperial College London, London, SW7, United Kingdom