Crescent dunes and meandering rivers can 'forget' their initial shapes as they are carved and reshaped by wind and water while other landforms keep a memory of their past shape, suggests a new ...

The evolutionary history of fluvial geomorphology is the consequences of combined effects of tectonic, climate, lithology and base level. Previous researches had emphasized tectonic impacts on the ...

A team led by Sitong Liu from Peking University conducted a study along a 4,300-kilometer gradient of the Yangtze River, covering 12 mountain-foothill sites and 15 plain sites. Through metagenomic ...