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Mountains: Erosion
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Erosion
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Sediment Regime
• Sediment “regime” of a river is set by the amount and size of material delivered from both hillslopes and upstream.
• The amount or rate of sediment supply depends on the processes that govern sediment delivery to rivers.
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Sediment Supply to Rivers
Size and composition of sediment delivered to rivers reflects:
• soil properties
• rock properties
• the process that delivered it.
Graduate student for scale
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Sediment Budget
Soil Creep
Landsliding
Bank Erosion
UpstreamInput
Stream ReachDownstream
Output
I - O = ΔS
Sediment inputs from upstream and across channel banks are balanced by either downstream sediment transport or changes in sediment storage.
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Erosional Processes
• Soil “Creep”• Overland Flow• Landslides• Glaciers• River incision into bedrock• Bank Erosion
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Erosional Processes
• Soil “Creep”• Overland Flow• Landslides• Glaciers• River Incision• Bank Erosion
Soil creep is the gradual, non-catastrophic downslope movement of weathered material under the influence of gravity (i.e., not by flowing water).
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The burrowing activity of animals results in a net downslope transport of material that in some environments can be the dominant sediment transport process.
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Tree-throw can uproot rocks and also usually results in a net downslope transport of soil and broken rock.
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Plowing a hillslope, ca. 1935
National Archives: RG083 G 36711
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Soil Creep
Soil Creep
Landsliding
Bank Erosion
UpstreamInput
Stream ReachDownstream
Output
Slow, steady input of material across channel banks, or delivered to valley bottom.
Typical rates of 0.1 to 1 mm yr-1.
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Erosional Processes
• Soil “Creep”• Overland Flow• Landslides• Glaciers• River Incision• Bank Erosion
Erosion by overland flow occurs once enough flow accumulates to overcome the erosion resistance of the ground surface.
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Precipitation that runs off as overland flow can cause substantial erosion once enough flow accumulates to incise the ground surface.
Xc
Xc is the critical distance needed to incise a channel.
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Badlands environments are an extreme example where Xc may be just cm’s!
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Unchanneled valleys occur where the erosion resistance of the ground surface is high relative to the amount of overland flow; Xc is very large.
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Entrenched channels and gullies can develop in landscapes where overgrazing decreases the erosion resistance of the valley floor.
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Overland Flow
Erosion by overland flow is rare in forested mountain landscapes because:
• rainfall tends to infiltrate into the
ground;
•the ground has substantial erosion
resistance due to vegetation.
Erosion by overland flow is most common in disturbed or semi-arid landscapes
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Erosional Processes
• Soil “Creep”• Overland Flow• Landslides• Glaciers• River Incision• Bank Erosion
Landslides involve the downslope movement of soil and/or rock under the influence of gravity and may be either slow and gradual or rapid and catastrophic.
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Bedrock landslides
Bedrock landslides can limit the relief of mountain ranges, such as happened at Mt. Cook, New Zealand when the top 10 meters of summit fell away in a massive landslide/avalanche on December 14, 1991.
Scarp
Runoutzone
Deposit
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Bedrock landslides
• Earth Flows– Lots of internal
deformation; typically slow.
Earthflow in New Zealand
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Soil landslides
• Debris Flows– Lots of internal
deformation; rapid.
Failure typically occurs along well-defined shear plane at soil-bedrock interface.
Debris flows along Tolt River
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Landsliding
Soil Creep
Landsliding
Bank Erosion
UpstreamInput
Stream ReachDownstream
Output
Rapid, infrequent inputs of large volumes of sediment.
Rates of delivery set by landslide frequency, which is often centuries to millennia at a point.
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Erosional Processes
• Soil “Creep”• Overland Flow• Landslides• Glaciers• River Incision• Bank Erosion
Glaciers can both entrain loose surface materials and gouge deeply into bedrock.
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Glacial Erosion
Rapid erosion of material from above perennial snow line.
Rates can exceed 10 mm yr-1.
Processes of erosion and rates depend on temperature, glacier size, precipitation rate, etc...
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Erosional Processes
• Soil “Creep”• Overland Flow• Landslides• Glaciers• River Incision• Bank Erosion
Rivers can carve deeply into bedrock and such incision provides another source of sediment.
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
- Lao-Tzu, 6th century B.C.
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River Incision
Erosion = f (discharge, channel width, slope)
More water in a narrower channel down a steeper slope means faster river incision
Rates of bedrock river incision typically range from <0.01 mm yr-1 to 1 mm yr-1, but can exceed 5 mm yr-1 in extreme topography.
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Erosional Processes
• Soil “Creep”• Overland Flow• Landslides• Glaciers• River Incision• Bank Erosion
Bank erosion recycles material stored on the valley bottom, typically in the floodplain.
The rate of bank erosion defines a turnover time for valley bottom landforms.
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What controls erosion?
Potential process drivers:
• Climate • Topography • Vegetation
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Landscape-scale rates of erosion vary with:
• Erodibility• Slope• Climate• Vegetation
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Rates of erosion vary with:
• Erodibility• Slope• Climate• Vegetation
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Erodibility
There is at least a 5 order of magnitude range in bedrock
erodiblity
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Rates of erosion vary with:
• Erodibility• Slope• Climate• Vegetation
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Rates of erosion vary with:
• Erodibility• Slope• Climate• Vegetation
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Effect of Precipitation and Vegetation on Sediment Yields
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TectonicProcesses
Surface Processes
Climate
Mantle
Continental Crust
Class Concept: Rivers and beaches are part of sediment transfer systems