| 项目编号: | 1608014
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| 项目名称: | Fracture density and grain size controls on the relief structure of bedrock landscapes |
| 作者: | Roman DiBiase
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| 承担单位: | Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
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| 批准年: | 2016
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| 开始日期: | 2016-06-01
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| 结束日期: | 2019-05-31
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| 资助金额: | 315052
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| 资助来源: | US-NSF
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| 项目类别: | Standard Grant
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| 国家: | US
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Geosciences - Earth Sciences
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| 英文关键词: | rock strength
; landscape
; bedrock hillslope
; landscape evolution model
; landscape-scale erodibility
; project
; steep landscape
; bedrock fracturing
; entire landscape
; bedrock fracture density
; fracture density
; grain size distribution
; channel relief
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| 英文摘要: | Quantifying the connection between rock material properties and the topography of mountain ranges is critical for understanding how climate and tectonics influence landscapes and for predicting natural hazards. However, incorporating rock strength into landscape evolution models has been a challenging problem. This is due in part to difficulties in defining appropriate metrics to describe rock strength, and because the factors that determine rock strength vary in importance depending on erosion process. This project aims to address this knowledge gap by testing the hypothesis that in steep landscapes, rock strength exerts a first order control on landscape-scale erodibility through the influence of fracture density on bedrock hillslopes and the resulting grain size distribution of sediment delivered to channels.
By comparing topographic metrics of hillslope and channel relief with erosion rates determined from cosmogenic nuclide concentrations in stream sediment, this project will characterize differences in erodibility between two landscapes in Southern California with similar topography, rock type, and climate, but strongly contrasting tectonic history and bedrock fracture density. This project will take advantage of new ground-based photogrammetry techniques and analysis of high-resolution airborne lidar data to upscale field observations and measurements to entire landscapes. Development and testing of novel point-cloud and image-based analysis techniques will provide training and experience for geoscience undergraduates through classroom laboratory exercises and independent research projects. Results from this project will provide a framework for making progress on the challenging task of expanding site-specific correlations between relief and erosion rate to regions with differing rock strength and climate, and inform provocative hypotheses regarding potential feedbacks between tectonic setting and bedrock fracturing that limit the height of mountain ranges. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/92265
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| Appears in Collections: | 全球变化的国际研究计划
科学计划与规划
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Roman DiBiase. Fracture density and grain size controls on the relief structure of bedrock landscapes. 2016-01-01.
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