作者: Kristen L. Cook , Jens M. Turowski , Niels Hovius
DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2224
关键词: Erosion 、 Geomorphology 、 Hydrology 、 Geology 、 Downstream (manufacturing) 、 Front (oceanography) 、 Floodplain 、 Bedrock
摘要: Narrow river gorges are often short-lived features. Images of a bedrock gorge in Taiwan, which was carved after 1999, reveal rapid widening where the upstream floodplain meets gorge, an erosional front that propagates downstream as is erased.