Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4686643 Geomorphology 2008 10 Pages PDF
Abstract
The various landscape elements of slope, pediment, and floodplain are semi-independent actors in sediment delivery, each with its own style. Accelerated mass movement on the slopes has an approximate 20-year recurrence. Sediment movement from slope across pediments to master stream is episodic and recurs more frequently. The slope-to-pediment portion of the system appears well connected. However, sediment transport through the floodplain is not well connected in the decadal time scale, but increases in the century and millennial time scales, and changes over time depending on the cycle of arroyo cutting and filling.
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