Abrupt drainage basin reorganization following a Pleistocene river capture

River capture acts as one river steals the neighboring headwaters, which is a dramatic natural process for mountain landscapes evolution. Here the authors show a stream piracy reversed flow in a major river resulting in waterfall formation, bedrock gorge incision, and widespread topographic disequil...

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Main Authors: Niannian Fan, Zhongxin Chu, Luguang Jiang, Marwan A. Hassan, Michael P. Lamb, Xingnian Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06238-6