Drainage divide migration and implications for climate and biodiversity

C He, J Braun, H Tang, X Yuan… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Drainage divides separate Earth's surface into individual river basins. Divide migration
impacts the evolution of landforms, regional climate, ecosystems and biodiversity. In this …

The erosional signature of drainage divide motion along the Blue Ridge Escarpment

MF Stokes, IJ Larsen, SL Goldberg… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The planform rearrangement of river basins is recognized as an important process for
landscape evolution. The boundaries of river basins can shift either through gradual …

Initial topography matters in drainage divide migration analysis: Insights from numerical simulations and natural examples

Y Ye, X Tan, C Zhou - Geomorphology, 2022 - Elsevier
The stability of drainage divides is widely used for tectonic reconstruction. A drainage divide
migrating from the high-uplift side towards the geometric center is usually thought to indicate …

River linear inversion to assess drainage base-level fall history in North-western Apennines and implications on the Alessandria Basin tectonic activity

VB Tebar, M Bonasera, S Racano, G Fubelli - Geomorphology, 2024 - Elsevier
Drainage network systems are responsive elements to recent active tectonics from among
all the topographic features. In geodynamically active areas, fluvial landscapes can record …

Tectonics, Base‐Level Fluctuations, and Climate Impact on the Eocene to Present‐Day Erosional Pattern of the Arabia‐Eurasia Collision Zone (NNW Iranian Plateau …

A Kaveh‐Firouz, JP Burg, N Haghipour, SK Mandal… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The NNW Iranian Plateau and west Alborz within the Arabia‐Eurasia collision zone
are characterized by three main tectono‐stratigraphic zones, crosscut by the Qezel‐Owzan …

Quantifying the migration rate of drainage divides from high-resolution topographic data

C Zhou, X Tan, Y Liu, F Shi - Earth Surface Dynamics, 2024 - esurf.copernicus.org
The lateral movement of drainage divides is co-influenced by tectonics, lithology, and
climate and therefore archives a wealth of geologic and climatic information. It also has wide …

The evolution of spatial and temporal distribution of rainfall erosivity in Henan Province, central China

S Wang, X Xu, L Lei - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
With the advancement of urbanization, there has been a significant reduction in cultivated
land, accompanied by soil erosion. Concurrently, the regularity of rainfall in recent years has …

A 300 kyr record of past hydroclimate change from alluvial fans in the southern Central Andes

MK D'Arcy, TF Schildgen, S Bonnet… - Earth Surface …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Alluvial fans are hypothesised to record signals of past hydroclimate changes in their
depositional chronologies and slopes. However, direct tests of this hypothesis have been …

Drainage divide migration between the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers at Eastern Qinling Mountains (central China): Insights from U-Pb ages of detrital rutile

Y Chen, Y Li, X Wang, R Zhang, W Lai, H Zhang, H Lyu… - Geomorphology, 2024 - Elsevier
Drainage divide migration, influenced by tectonic processes and climate change,
significantly shapes geomorphological dynamics and sediment dispersal patterns. However …

Tectono-geomorphological evolution of the Eastern Pyrenees: Insights from thermo-kinematic modeling

G Milesi, PG Valla, P Münch, D Huyghe - Tectonophysics, 2023 - Elsevier
Constraining the tectono-geomorphological evolution of the Pyrenees is still a major
challenge, especially in the Eastern Pyrenees where late Neogene exhumation history and …