The continent of Africa has a distinctive physical geography—an "egg carton" pattern of basins and swells—that researchers attribute to plumes of mantle rocks rising beneath a tectonic plate. Marine ...

Variation in bedrock erodibility along a river profile gives rise to differences in vertical incision rate and influences sediment characteristics such as clast lithology, coarse sediment generation ...

Geoscientists have struggled for decades to detect the influence of climate on the formation of rivers, but until now there had been no systematic evidence. Water flows downhill, so the path a river ...

The erosional landscape evolves as the joint product of both tectonic activity and climate. The morphology of the long profiles of active rivers has been proven to be an archive to preserve and record ...

"Our study shows that many river profiles around the world are not concave up and that straighter profiles tend to be more common in arid environments." "I think dryland rivers have been understudied ...

This study is led by Dr. Yizhou Wang, Huiping Zhang (Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration) and Dr. Dewen Zheng (Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences). The ...