Constraining tectonic uplift and advection from the main drainage divide of a mountain belt

One of the most conspicuous features of a mountain belt is the main drainage divide. Divide location is influenced by a number of parameters, including tectonic uplift and horizontal advection. Thus, the topography of mountain belts can be used as an archive to extract tectonic information. Here we...

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Autores principales: He, Chuanqi, Yang, Ci-Jian, Turowski, Jens M., Rao, Gang, Roda-Boluda, Duna C., Yuan, Xiao-Ping
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Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7822862/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33483486
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20748-2
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author He, Chuanqi
Yang, Ci-Jian
Turowski, Jens M.
Rao, Gang
Roda-Boluda, Duna C.
Yuan, Xiao-Ping
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description One of the most conspicuous features of a mountain belt is the main drainage divide. Divide location is influenced by a number of parameters, including tectonic uplift and horizontal advection. Thus, the topography of mountain belts can be used as an archive to extract tectonic information. Here we combine numerical landscape evolution modelling and analytical solutions to demonstrate that mountain asymmetry, determined by the location of the main drainage divide, increases with increasing uplift gradient and advection velocity. Then, we provide a conceptual framework to constrain the present or previous tectonic uplift and advection of a mountain belt from the location and migration direction of its main drainage divide. Furthermore, we apply our model to Wula Shan horst, Northeastern Sicily, and Southern Taiwan.
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spelling pubmed-78228622021-01-29 Constraining tectonic uplift and advection from the main drainage divide of a mountain belt He, Chuanqi Yang, Ci-Jian Turowski, Jens M. Rao, Gang Roda-Boluda, Duna C. Yuan, Xiao-Ping Nat Commun Article One of the most conspicuous features of a mountain belt is the main drainage divide. Divide location is influenced by a number of parameters, including tectonic uplift and horizontal advection. Thus, the topography of mountain belts can be used as an archive to extract tectonic information. Here we combine numerical landscape evolution modelling and analytical solutions to demonstrate that mountain asymmetry, determined by the location of the main drainage divide, increases with increasing uplift gradient and advection velocity. Then, we provide a conceptual framework to constrain the present or previous tectonic uplift and advection of a mountain belt from the location and migration direction of its main drainage divide. Furthermore, we apply our model to Wula Shan horst, Northeastern Sicily, and Southern Taiwan. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7822862/ /pubmed/33483486 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20748-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7822862/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20748-2
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