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Week 8

Lecture 14: Landscape Evolution Models

Tucker, G. E. and Slingerland, R. 1997. Drainage basin responses to climate change. Water Resources Research 33:8:2031-2047.
Tucker, G. E. and Hancock, G. R. 2010. Modelling landscape evolution. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, 35: 28-50. doi:10.1002/esp.1952

Outline:

Uplands- sheet/rill erosion (USLE method), gullying (surveying), badland development
Valleys- streambank and streambed erosion (surveying), meandering (surveying, aerial photography)

Course reading:

Reid, L. M. and Dunne, T. (2003) Sediment Budgets as an Organizing Framework in Fluvial Geomorphology, in Tools in Fluvial Geomorphology (eds G. M. Kondolf and H. Piégay), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/0470868333.ch16.
Hadley, R. F. and Schumm, S. A. 1961. Sediment sources and drainage basin characteristics in Upper Cheyenne River Basin. USGS Water-Supply Paper 1531-B.
Great reference for rUSLE: C.T. Haan, B.J. Barfield and J.C. Hayes, 8 - Erosion and Sediment Yield, In Design Hydrology and Sedimentology for Small Catchments, Academic Press, San Diego, 1994, Pages 238-310, ISBN 9780123123404, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-057164-5.50012-8.