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Appraisal of Tectonic‐Geomorphic Features in the Hindu Kush‐ Himalayas

open access: yesEarth and Space Science, 2021
The appraisal of tectonic‐geomorphic features is the basis for the development and management of land, the selection of road routes, and the site selection and construction process of hydropower projects.
Yanqian Pei   +6 more
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Geomorphology of the Kaikoura area [PDF]

open access: yes, 1968
The major physiographic units in the Kaikoura area are the Peninsula Block, Beach Ridges and Raised Beaches, Hard Rock Areas and the Alluvial Fans. Erosion of the Seaward Kaikoura Mountains and the transfer of the debris to the sea by fan streams have ...
Chandra, Satish
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Roles of the riparian vegetation: the antagonism between flooding risk and the protection of environments

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2016
Since the beginning of the 20th century, man has domesticated his environment and caused the modification of hydraulic conditions during floods. In parallel, civil engineering has strongly progressed in the domain of hydraulic structures but especially ...
Zanetti Caroline   +5 more
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Floodplain channel morphology and networks of the middle Amazon River [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Floodplain channels are important components of river-floodplain systems and are known to play a key role in hydrodynamic exchange and sediment transport.
Bates, Paul D   +4 more
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A study on tectonic geomorphology and landscape ecological pattern in the Kangsu area, Wuqia, Xinjiang

open access: yesDizhi lixue xuebao, 2022
The Kangsu area is located in the basin-mountain coupling zone formed by the alluvial action of the West Kunlun Mountains and the Southwestern Tianshan Mountains.
WANG Lei   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Morphometric dataset of the alluvial fans at the southern part of Nayband fault, Iran

open access: yesData in Brief, 2018
This data article provides a precise level data on alluvial fans of the western border of Lut desert, a unique location on the Earth, known as one of the hottest spot on the Earth.
Farzaneh Hashemi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Geomorphology Characteristic and Tectonic Response of the Meijiang Watershed in the Southern China Represented by Hypsometric Integral [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response (JRACR), 2018
MeiJiang river basin was selected as study area in this paper because it is a typical representative in the mountains of south China. Firstly, the study area was classified into several catchments in ARCGIS platform based on DEM data.
Qinghua Gong, Min Guo, Shuqing Fu
doaj   +1 more source

Lowland river responses to intraplate tectonism and climate forcing quantified with luminescence and cosmogenic 10Be [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Intraplate tectonism has produced large-scale folding that steers regional drainage systems, such as the 1600 km-long Cooper Ck, en route to Australia’s continental depocentre at Lake Eyre.
Bowman, H.H.   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Simplified structural map of Kras Kras (Slovene), Carso (Italian) = Geographical unit

open access: yesGeologija, 2015
With this contribution comes a printed copy of the Simplified structural map of Kras, comprising an area on both sides of the state border between Slovenia and Italy, as well as its short description.
Ladislav Placer
doaj   +1 more source

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