The Sierra Nevada is a c. 4000 m range of mountains paralle1 to the North American Pacific Coast that was repeatedly glaciated during the climatic fluchrations of the Quatemary. The glacial record on the eastem side of the range includes eight named Pleistocene glaciations and stadials: McGee, Sherwin, Casa Diablo, Mono Basin, Tahoe, Tenaya, Tioga and Recess Peak, as well as the Neoglacial Matt...

The rate of sediment supply from erosional catchment to depositional basin depends primarily upon climate, relief, catchment slope and lithology. It varies in both time and space. Spatial changes in erosion rates due to variations in lithology are illustrated by contrasting rates of drainage divide migration away from faults of known ages. Time variations in relative sediment supply are extreme...

In the coastal mountains of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica, there is a juxtaposition of ice moulded landforms at lower altitudes and upstanding summits with weathered surfaces bearing tors. This paper uses geomorphological mapping and exposure dating to test two hypotheses commonly used to explain such a landscape contrast: either the pattern reflects contrasts in glacial erosion related to the ba...

[1] An analytical solution to the development of a glacier or ice sheet in a region where the underlying rock rises steadily shows that the ice mass oscillates in size, independefntly of changes in the climate, in response to a feedback in which ice thickness is linked to topography by ice-induced erosion. The rate of vertical movement of the underlying rock uplift and the parameters governing ...

Conditions for the Pleistocene glaciation in the regions of Černé Jezero and Čertovo Jezero lakes in the Šumava Mts. are analyzed in this paper, with a comparison of the resulting glacial landforms. Although the two cirques are immediate neighbours, have approximately the same area, altitude and relative vertical relief-dissection, their glacial erosion and accumulation relief segments exhibit ...

Erosion by glacial and fluvial processes shapes mountain landscapes in a long-recognized and characteristic way. Upland valleys incised by fluvial processes typically have a V-shaped cross-section with uniform and moderately steep slopes, whereas glacial valleys tend to have a U-shaped profile with a changing slope gradient. We present a novel regional approach to automatically differentiate be...

Quantifying bedrock weathering rates under diverse climate conditions is essential to understanding timescales of landscape evolution. Yet, are often difficult constrain, and associating a weathered landform specific formative environment can be complicated by overprinting successive processes temporally varying climate. In this study, we investigate three sites between 59°N 69°N along the Norw...