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DOI	10.1073/pnas.0907531107
	Glacier and landslide feedbacks to topographic relief in the Himalayan syntaxes
	Korup O.; Montgomery D.R.; Hewitt K.
发表日期	2010
ISSN	0027-8424
起始页码	5317
结束页码	5322
卷号	107 期号:12
英文摘要	Despite longstanding research on the age and formation of the Tibetan Plateau, the controls on the erosional decay of its margins remain controversial. Pronounced aridity and highly localized rock uplift have traditionally been viewed as limits to the dissection of the plateau by bedrock rivers. Recently, however, glacier dynamics and landsliding have been argued to retard headward fluvial erosion into the plateau interior by forming dams and protective alluvial fill. Here, we report a conspicuous clustering of hundreds of natural dams along the Indus and the Tsangpo Rivers where these cross the Himalayan syntaxes. The Indus is riddled by hundreds of dams composed of debris from catastrophic rock avalanches, forming the largest concentration of giant landslide dams known worldwide, whereas the Tsangpo seems devoid of comparable landslide dams. In contrast, glacial dams such as river-blocking moraines in the headwaters of both rivers are limited to where isolated mountain ranges intersect the regional snowline. We find that to first-order, high local topographic relief along both rivers corresponds to conspicuously different knickzones and differences in the type and potential longevity of these dams. In both syntaxes, glacier and landslide dams act as a negative feedback in response to fluvial dissection of the plateau margins. Natural damming protects bedrock from river incision and delays headward knick-point migration, thereby helping stabilize the southwestern and southeastern margins of the Tibetan Plateau in concert with the effects of upstream aridity and localized rock uplift.
英文关键词	Erosion; Tectonic geomorphology
语种	英语
scopus关键词	arable land; article; environmental impact; geomorphology; glacier; landslide; negative feedback; priority journal; river; rock; topography
来源期刊	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/159157
作者单位	Korup, O., Swiss Federal Research Institutes WSL/SLF, Flüelastr. 11, CH-7260 Davos, Switzerland, Institut für Erd- und Umweltwissenschaften, Universität Potsdam, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany; Montgomery, D.R., Quaternary Research Center, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-1310, United States; Hewitt, K., Cold Regions Research Center, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Korup O.,Montgomery D.R.,Hewitt K.. Glacier and landslide feedbacks to topographic relief in the Himalayan syntaxes[J],2010,107(12).
APA	Korup O.,Montgomery D.R.,&Hewitt K..(2010).Glacier and landslide feedbacks to topographic relief in the Himalayan syntaxes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,107(12).
MLA	Korup O.,et al."Glacier and landslide feedbacks to topographic relief in the Himalayan syntaxes".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107.12(2010).