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• Session 3

  • Steady-stage landforms & scaling
  • Transient landforms & landform evolution Floodplain processes
  • Issues and opportunities in landform modeling
  • Extraterrestrial geomorphology: Landform development on the planet Mars (if time permits)

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The final session will be concerned with integrating weathering, mass-wasting, and fluvial processes into landscape evolution models. The first topic will be steady state landscapes developed under a constant rate of erosion of the controlling base level and constant climate and uniform rock properties. The discussion will then progress to a few examples of transient landform evolution under temporally varying conditions. The talk will then present a brief summary of unresolved issues and future opportunities in landform modeling. If time permits, I will give a brief synopsis of current modeling that I am undertaking to simulate landform processes that occurred early in the history of the planet Mars.