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A multi-proxy assessment of terrace formation in the lower Trinity River valley, Texas [PDF]

open access: yesEarth Surface Dynamics, 2022
A proposed null hypothesis for fluvial terrace formation is that internally generated or autogenic processes, such as lateral migration and river-bend cutoff, produce variabilities in channel incision that lead to the abandonment of floodplain segments ...
H. J. Hassenruck-Gudipati   +3 more
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Risk Assessment of Riverine Terraces: The Case of the Chenyulan River Watershed in Nantou County, Taiwan

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2022
The purpose of this study is to establish a method of hazard assessment for the river terraces along the Chenyulan River and use 40 of them as protected objects.
Ji-Yuan Lin   +2 more
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Agroecosystem composition and landscape ecological risk evolution of rice terraces in the southern mountains, China

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2022
Mountain rice terrace agriculture is a critical land use practice in southern China. Analyzing the vertical structure of rice terraces systems and the coupled evolution of their human-land relationship from a mountainous stereoscopic perspective is ...
Meng Yu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Interplay between Tectonic Activity, Climate and Sea-Level Change in the Suriname River Valley, Tropical South America

open access: yesQuaternary, 2021
Suriname is part of the Guiana Shield, a cratonic area in northern South America. It is drained by several major rivers that are characterized by river terraces.
Kathleen S. Gersie   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Low polyphase fluvial levels of the river Crni Timok in the basin of Zaječar [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Srpskog Geografskog Društva, 2004
The problem of origin and extension of the river terrace in Serbian valleys has been dealt with by many explorers. Beside those extensive investigations, this problem has not been explained enough.
Nešić Dragan
doaj   +1 more source

Late Pliocene-Pleistocene incision in the Ebro Basin (North Spain)

open access: yesBSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2021
The Ebro Basin constitutes the central part of the southern foreland of the Pyrenees. It was endorheic during the Cenozoic and accumulated sediments. By the end of the Miocene, erosion and river incision reconnected the basin to the Mediterranean Sea ...
Regard Vincent   +5 more
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The Turin fluvial terraces as evidence of the new Holocene setting of the Po River

open access: yesJournal of Maps, 2021
A detailed geomorphological mapping of the Po River fluvial terraces into Turin was performed through a field survey. Although Turin is crossed by the Po River, most of the town is built on the extended alpine outwash fans linked to its tributaries ...
M. Gabriella Forno, Franco Gianotti
doaj   +1 more source

The Sendai river terraces monitored the co-seismic mega-thrusting

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
We conducted a detailed geological survey of the Sendai region, covering an area of 100 × 50 km. Our survey focused on accurately mapping river terraces, identifying the source volcanoes responsible for intercalated tephras, and locating the Nagamachi ...
Soichi Osozawa, Hisatoshi Ito
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Optical Dating of Quartz Grains From the Minjiang Fluvial Terraces in the Sonpan Area on the Eastern Margin of the Tibetan Plateau

open access: yesFrontiers in Earth Science, 2022
The fluvial terraces along the banks of the Minjiang River are very important for understanding the tectonic activities of the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau and have been widely investigated.
Ye-Song Han   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping of major river terraces and assessment of their characteristics in Upper Pindar River Basin, Uttarakhand: A geospatial approach

open access: yesQuaternary Science Advances, 2021
In the present paper, an attempt has been made to trace out the major terraces and analyse their characteristics in the Upper Pindar valley of the Uttarakhand state.
Senjuti Nandy   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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