A surface processes model incorporating large-scale fluvial processes, local hill-slope processes, and glacial erosion is used to investigate the effect of glaciation on the relief of a fast-growing, narrow orogen. The results of several simulations show that: glaciers concentrate erosion near peaks; fluvial erosion is reduced downstream of glaciers; glaciers with frozen bases can lead to an in...

Phase equilibria modelling incorporating melt reintegration offers a methodology to create hypothetical rock compositions that may have existed prior to melt loss, allowing the potential prograde evolution of rocks to be explored. However, melt reintegration modelling relies on assumptions concerning the volume of melt that was lost and is generally restricted by the absence of direct constrain...

The northward subduction and subsequent exhumation of the Sulu ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism terrane exposes a tilted coherent crustal section of the overriding North China Block (NCB), providing an opportunity to study three-dimensional structures of the subduction/collision process. Detailed geological mapping and structural measurements on the Liaodong peninsula, located at the southern ma...

[1] A series of sharp bends (oroclines) are recognized in the Paleozoic to early Mesozoic New England Orogen of eastern Australia. The exact geometry and origin of these bends is obscured by voluminous magmatism and is still debated. Here we present zircon U-Pb ages that confirm the lateral continuation of early Permian (296–288 Ma) granitoids and shed new light on the oroclinal structure. Orog...

DENSLOW M. W. (Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608), M. W. PALMER (Department of Botany, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078), AND Z. E. MURRELL (Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 28608). Patterns of native and exotic vascular plant richness along an elevational gradient from sea level to the summit of the Appalachian Mou...

0022-1694/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2012.01.035 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 706 202 8193. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (H. Ssegane), Tollner), [email protected] (Y.M. Mo (T.C. Rasmussen), [email protected] (J.F. Dowd). Hydrological flow predictions in ungauged and sparsely gauged watersheds use regionalization or classification of hydrologi...

INTRODUCTOIN The prevalence of childhood cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors often increases in more rural geographic regions in the USA. However, research on the topic often has conflicting results. Researchers note differences in definitions of rurality and other factors that would lead to differences in inference, including appropriate use of statistical clustering analysis, representa...