Relationship Between Dams, Knickpoints and the Longitudinal Profile of the Upper Indus River

Mass movements in mountainous areas are capable of damming rivers and can have a lasting effect on the river longitudinal profile. The long profile is commonly used to retrieve regional tectonic information, but how much dams may compromise geomorphometry-based tectonic analysis has not been systema...

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Main Authors: Liqin Zhou, Weiming Liu, Xiaoqing Chen, Hao Wang, Xudong Hu, Xuemei Li, Wolfgang Schwanghart
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Earth Science
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2021.660996/full