CONCERNING THE LAWS OF ARID GEOMORPHOLOGY
https://doi.org/10.15356/0435-4281-2016-2-3-17
Abstract
The first universal geomorphologic law of D.A. Timofeev could be considered as a general law of geomorphology: earth relief is formed due to the interaction of oppositely directed endogenous and exogenous relief-forming processes. Private geomorphologic laws differ widely within the arid, primary eolian, and humid, mainly fluvial environments. General private geomorphologic law for them – the law of relief formation due to lithodynamic flows function. These flows are associated with both – the continuous activity of the wind, and with occasional, but powerful water currents in the arid relief-forming regions; on the plains they are present linear and concentric development, characterized by upstream and downstream trend, regardless of surface slopes. Streams of humid type are mainly developed in accordance with morphostructural terms; they have water genesis and differ by upstream development trend. The author extracts 12 laws of arid geomorphology: 1) the law of universality: wind activity appears almost everywhere on Earth and on other planets; 2) the law of eolian processes reflection in the sandy terrain pattern in large arid plain areas; 3) the eolian process action as if regardless of Earth’s attraction; 4) the law of three components of eolian process: the destruction of the original rocks and sediments, their transport and deposition; 5) the law of deflation and accumulation interaction in eolian process operation and eolian morphogenetic systems creation; 6) the law of two types of mass transfer – areal and stream oriented with the prevalence of the latter; 7) the law of a wide range of the transported debris dimension; 8) the law of pulsating character of eolian processes; 9) the law of the largest sand deserts confinedness to the low angle depressions of the initial terrain; 10) the law of the joint action of eolian and fluvial processes during eolian relief forming; 11) the law of erosion forms development in arid and extra arid regions; 12) the law of functioning of large rivers in the arid zones.
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