Measurements of nutrient and suspended matter concentrations and loads entering and leaving the Castanhão reservoir during the rainy season were carried out to assess the influence of this large reservoir on land-sea fluvial transport in the ephemeral Jaguaribe river basin. Spatial variation indicated statistically significant attenuation of concentrations only for total phosphorous and suspend...

The theories of critical orogenic wedges and fluvial erosion are combined to explore the interactions between tectonics, erosion, and climate. A model framework is developed which allows the derivation of an exact analytical scaling relationship for how orogen width, height, and rock uplift rate vary as a function of accretionary flux and precipitation rate. Compared to a model with prescribed ...

Introduction: Impact crater degradation provides a powerful tool to analyze past Martian hydrological evolution. Previous studies concluded that large impact craters were strongly degraded during early Martian history, whereas younger craters are only weakly degraded [1]. Degraded craters are therefore one of the main lines of evidence for a warmer climate on early Mars. Global altimetry and re...

Eight stratigraphic sections from well-exposed outcrops of the Early to Middle Miocene Tanjong Formation in Kalabakan area, southeast Sabah, were investigated using an integrated approach, which a comprehensive sedimentological facies analysis was linked with bulk geochemistry and palynological analyses. The integration analysis, elemental CHNS, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), d...

valleys are marked in blue. FLUVIAL VALLEYS ON TITAN – A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE. M. Langhans, R. Jaumann, K. Stephan, R. H. Brown, B. J. Buratti, R. Clark, K. H. Baines, P. D. Nicholson and R. D. Lorenz. DLR, Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Inst. of Geosciences, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucso...

Alluvial fans and fan-deltas are of three basic types: those built up primarily by the action of constantly avulsing river and stream channels, those constructed by sheet flows, and those resulting from. ~e successive deposition of debris flows. The present analysis is directed toward the first two types. A mechamstic formulation of flow and sediment transport through river channels is combined...

Compared to taxonomic approaches, traits-based approaches are often implemented gain a more mechanistic understanding of how biotic communities respond changing environmental conditions, including landscape stressors. Studies evaluating trait–environment relationships have increased in prevalence over the last 2 decades, but such analyses rarely been conducted across continental extents which c...

This study investigates for the first time the relative importance of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and particulate organic carbon (POC) in the fluvial carbon flux from an actively eroding peatland catchment in the southern Pennines, UK. Event scale variability in DOC and POC was examined and the annual flux of fluvial organic carbon was estimated for the catchment. At the event scale, both DO...

A 500 km long network of valleys extends from Herschel crater to Gale, Knobel, and Sharp craters. The mineralogy and timing of fluvial activity in these watersheds provide a regional framework for deciphering the origin of sediments of Gale crater’s Mount Sharp, an exploration target for the Curiosity rover. Olivine-bearing bedrock is exposed throughout the region, and its erosion contributed t...