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River profiles along the Himalayan arc as indicators of active tectonics
Leonardo Seeber,Vivien Gornitz +1 more
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In this paper, the authors show that the discontinuity in the river profiles and the other features are controlled by a major tectonic boundary between the rising High Himalayas and the Lesser Himalaysas.About:
This article is published in Tectonophysics.The article was published on 1983-03-01. It has received 563 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Main Central Thrust & Tectonic phase.read more
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Tectonics of the Himalaya and southern Tibet from two perspectives
TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize the known geology of this orogenic system, with special attention paid to the tectonic evolution of the Himalaya and southernmost Tibet since India-Eurasia collision at ca. 50 Ma.
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Bedrock incision, rock uplift and threshold hillslopes in the northwestern Himalayas
Douglas W. Burbank,John Leland,Eric J. Fielding,Robert S. Anderson,Nicholas Brozovic,Mary R. Reid,Chris Duncan +6 more
TL;DR: The topography of tectonically active mountain ranges reflects a poorly understood competition between bedrock uplift and erosion as mentioned in this paper, and the Indus river incises through the bedrock at extremely high rates (2-12 mm yr-1).
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Active folding of fluvial terraces across the Siwaliks Hills, Himalayas of central Nepal
Jérôme Lavé,Jean Philippe Avouac +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed geomorphic evidence of recent crustal deformation in the sub-Himalaya of central Nepal, south of the Kathmandu Basin, using structural geology and fluvial terraces along the Bagmati and Bakeya Rivers.
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Undesirable evolutionary consequences of trophy hunting
David W. Coltman,Paul O'Donoghue,Jon T. Jorgenson,John T. Hogg,Curtis Strobeck,Marco Festa-Bianchet +5 more
TL;DR: Declines in mean breeding values for weight and horn size have declined significantly over time in an evolutionary response to sport hunting of bighorn trophy rams, resulting in the production of smaller-horned, lighter rams and fewer trophies.
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Expression of active tectonics in erosional landscapes
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the analysis and interpretation of channel profiles in erosional mountain ranges and show that existing data support theoretical expectations of positive, monotonic relationships between channel steepness index, a measure of channel gradient normalized for downstream increases in drainage area, and erosion rate at equilibrium, and that the transient response to perturbations away from equilibrium engenders specific spatial patterns in channel profiles that can be used to infer the forcing.
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