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Climate versus tectonics as controls on river profiles

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Fig. 1: Empirical relationship of river profile concavity with climate aridity and four morphological variables.

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  1. Department of Environmental System Sciences, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Hansjörg Seybold & James W. Kirchner

  2. Department of Earth Sciences, Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Wouter R. Berghuijs

  3. Geology, Minerals, Energy and Geophysics Science Center, US Geological Survey, Moffett Field, CA, USA

    Jeff P. Prancevic

  4. Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

    James W. Kirchner

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Seybold, H., Berghuijs, W.R., Prancevic, J.P. et al. Climate versus tectonics as controls on river profiles. Nature 612, E13–E14 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05418-1

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