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DOI	10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116350
	A glacial buzzsaw effect generated by efficient erosion of temperate glaciers in a steady state model
	Prasicek G.; Hergarten S.; Deal E.; Herman F.; Robl J.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0012821X
卷号	543
英文摘要	Studies on relief and hypsometry in glaciated mountain ranges have recognized the equilibrium line altitude of glaciers as a major control on mountain height. This has led to the belief that, in contrast to fluvial topography, glacial topography is limited by climate, with tectonics playing a secondary role. This concept is known as the glacial buzzsaw. However, the understanding of controls on glacial relief has remained mainly qualitative, in part because a reference scenario for glacial landscape evolution — a glacial topographic steady state linked to the base level by a fluvial topographic steady-state downstream of the glacier terminus - and its dependencies have not yet been defined. Here we define such a reference and compare steady state longitudinal profiles in a coupled system of glacial and fluvial erosion that involves both tectonics and climate. Our model is based on the stream power law for fluvial erosion, the shallow ice approximation in combination with a glacial erosion rule, and an empirically determined drainage area-flow length relationship for both rivers and glaciers. Further, we introduce a new approach to incorporate dendritic glacier network structures into the one-dimensional model. Modeling of coupled glacial-fluvial steady-state profiles with empirical glacial and fluvial erosion parameters shows that the difference between glacial and fluvial relief depends on climate, tectonics and the applied erosion laws. Our results imply that glacial erosion can typically balance tectonic uplift rates at lower relief and topographic slopes than fluvial erosion. This steady state equivalent of the glacial buzzsaw effect suggests that glaciers may indeed be more efficient erosional agents than rivers increasing erosion in a cooling climate. © 2020
关键词	fluvial erosion glacial buzzsaw glacial erosion landscape evolution longitudinal profile topographic steady state
英文关键词	Altitude control; Erosion; Tectonics; Topography; Equilibrium line altitudes; Longitudinal profile; Network structures; One-dimensional model; Shallow ice approximations; Steady state profiles; Steady-state modeling; Temperate glaciers; Glacial geology; bank erosion; erosion; glacial erosion; glacier; landscape evolution; longitudinal gradient; one-dimensional modeling; relief; steady-state equilibrium
语种	英语
来源期刊	Earth and Planetary Science Letters
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/202839
作者单位	Interdisciplinary Center for Mountain Research, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Freiburg, Germany; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States; Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Department of Geography and Geology, University of Salzburg, Austria
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Prasicek G.,Hergarten S.,Deal E.,et al. A glacial buzzsaw effect generated by efficient erosion of temperate glaciers in a steady state model[J],2020,543.
APA	Prasicek G.,Hergarten S.,Deal E.,Herman F.,&Robl J..(2020).A glacial buzzsaw effect generated by efficient erosion of temperate glaciers in a steady state model.Earth and Planetary Science Letters,543.
MLA	Prasicek G.,et al."A glacial buzzsaw effect generated by efficient erosion of temperate glaciers in a steady state model".Earth and Planetary Science Letters 543(2020).