DRAINAGE NETWORK ALTERATIONS: CAUSES AND FACTORS
https://doi.org/10.15356/0435-4281-2012-3-21-31
Abstract
Three main causes of river network alterations are described. 1. External impacts or complex of several impacts on drainage basin. These impacts may be caused by tectonic movements, volcanism, climatic changes, oscillations of end basin level and abrasive activity related to transgression. Their results may be whether broad and cover a series of neighbour basins, or local one. 2. Interaction of adjacent drainage basins with different velocity of inner processes. 3. The change of relief type within drainage basin (for instance from mountain into plain one) followed by alteration of types and velocities of major relief formation processes.
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E. V. LebedevaRussian Federation
Laboratory of geomorphology
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Lebedeva E.V. DRAINAGE NETWORK ALTERATIONS: CAUSES AND FACTORS. Geomorfologiya. 2012;(3):21-31. https://doi.org/10.15356/0435-4281-2012-3-21-31
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