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| Title |
Outburst floods provide erodability estimates consistent with long-term landscape evolution
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| Published in |
Scientific Reports, July 2018
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| DOI | 10.1038/s41598-018-28981-y |
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| Authors |
Daniel Garcia-Castellanos, Jim E. O’Connor |
| Abstract |
Most current models for the landscape evolution over geological timescales are based on semi-empirical laws that consider riverbed incision proportional to rock erodability (dependent on lithology) and to the work performed by water flow (stream power). However, the erodability values obtained from these models are entangled with poorly known conditions of past climate and streamflow. Here we use the erosion reported for 82 outburst floods triggered by overtopping lakes as a way to estimate the outlet erodability. This avoids the common assumptions regarding past hydrology because water discharge from overtopping floods is often well constrained from geomorphological evidence along the spillway. This novel methodology yields values of erodability that show a quantitative relation to lithology similar to previous river erosion analyses, expanding the range of hydrological and temporal scales of fluvial incision models and suggesting some consistency between the mathematical formulations of long-term and catastrophic erosional mechanisms. Our results also clarify conditions leading to the runaway erosion responsible for outburst floods triggered by overtopping lakes. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 33% |
| Germany | 1 | 17% |
| Spain | 1 | 17% |
| Unknown | 2 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 50% |
| Scientists | 3 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 48 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 48 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 27% |
| Researcher | 13 | 27% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 8% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 3 | 6% |
| Other | 6 | 13% |
| Unknown | 6 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 28 | 58% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 4% |
| Engineering | 2 | 4% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 2% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 6% |
| Unknown | 11 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 January 2020.
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