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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-687-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-9-687-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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07 Jul 2021
Research article |
| 07 Jul 2021
| 07 Jul 2021
The rate and extent of wind-gap migration regulated by tributary confluences and avulsions
Eitan Shelef
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geology and Environmental Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA
Liran Goren
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, 84105, Israel
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- Eastward drainage-divide migrations driven by the spatial variations in precipitation and tectonic uplift contribute to the formation of the Parallel Rivers in the Hengduan Mountains, Southeastern Tibet F. Gao et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109513
- Drainage divide migration and implications for climate and biodiversity C. He et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00511-z
- Quantifying the migration rate of drainage divides from high-resolution topographic data C. Zhou et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-433-2024
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- Westward Migration of the Chenghai–Jinsha Drainage Divide and Its Implication for the Initiation of the Chenghai Fault S. Bian et al. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs16183471
- Eastern Himalayan river captures and upper Assam uplift: Paleo-drainage evolution of the Brahmaputra River P. Rai et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2024.06.004
- Channel concavity controls planform complexity of branching drainage networks L. Goren & E. Shelef https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1347-2024
- Drainage rearrangement in an intra-continental mountain belt: a case study from the central South Tian Shan, Kyrgyzstan L. Gong et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-973-2024
- Drainage-divide migration at the Qinling and its implications for the drainage reorganization and rift evolution of the Weihe graben, Central China X. Zeng et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.109658
- Feedback between drainage divide migration and waterfall retreat can form and sustain embayments along escarpments: Morphometric and field evidence O. Porat et al. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.70346
- Record of paleo water divide locations reveals intermittent divide migration and links to paleoclimate proxies E. Harel et al. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2408426122
- Recent uplift of Chomolungma enhanced by river drainage piracy X. Han et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01535-w
- Topographic Response to Horizontal Advection in Normal Fault‐Bound Mountain Ranges A. Hoskins et al. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JF007126
- Orographic rainfall drives the Himalaya drainage divide to move north S. Bian et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2023.108952
- Applicability of the landscape evolution model in the absence of rills M. Cheraghi et al. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.872711
- The Yellow River headwater is shrinking in response to the northeastward expansion of the Tibetan Plateau Y. Ye & X. Tan https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112609
- Drainage reorganization induces deviations in the scaling between valley width and drainage area E. Harel et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-10-875-2022
- How does the newly-formed drainage divide migrate after a river capture event? S. Bian et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.119165
- Eastward drainage-divide migrations driven by the spatial variations in precipitation and tectonic uplift contribute to the formation of the Parallel Rivers in the Hengduan Mountains, Southeastern Tibet F. Gao et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2024.109513
- Drainage divide migration and implications for climate and biodiversity C. He et al. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-023-00511-z
- Quantifying the migration rate of drainage divides from high-resolution topographic data C. Zhou et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-433-2024
- Late-Quaternary sediments around the wind gap accelerate the wind-gap migration following the Dadu-Anning river capture event Q. Guo et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2025.113497
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Short summary
Drainage basins are bounded by water divides (divides) that define their shape and extent. Divides commonly coincide with high ridges, but in places that experienced extensive tectonic deformation, divides sometimes cross elongated valleys. Inspired by field observations and using simulations of landscape evolution, we study how side channels that drain to elongated valleys induce pulses of divide migration, affecting the distribution of water and erosion products across mountain ranges.
Drainage basins are bounded by water divides (divides) that define their shape and extent....
