Soils, relict landscapes and paleoclimate in the Atacama Desert, Chile part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
The exceptionally dry Atacama Desert, adjacent to the Central Andes in northern Chile, contains many relict landscapes (landscapes formed in the past, but preserved on the present surface; Figure 1). One remarkable ...

Stream response to Climate Change, Atacama Desert, Chile part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Climate on earth is constantly changing. Earth's climate can change gradually over millions of years (tectonic-scale) due to changes in greenhouse gases or the slow movement of tectonic plates, or climate can ...

Rock glaciers: their ice and debris balances part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Rock glaciers are best defined by their topography (Fig. 1) and that they flow slowly. Their dynamic character is attributed to the flow of ice deforming the associated weathered rock debris. Typically, they flow ...

Cold climate conditions as a driver of alluvial fan deposition in the Lost River Range, Idaho, USA part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Numerous large alluvial fans sit along the western front of the Lost River Range (LRR) in east-central Idaho, USA (Figure 1). These alluvial fans form where streams exit confined basins within the mountain range, ...

Predicting the effect of changing climate on landscapes with computer based landscape evolution models part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Predicting the effect of changing climate on landscapes with computer based landscape evolution models. Future climate change will influence the processes that shape our landscapes. Knowing this influence is ...

The Snowplow, Lake Bonneville, Utah part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Lake Bonneville was the largest of the late Pleistocene lakes in the Great Basin of western North America (Fig. 1). It occupied the basin of modern Great Salt Lake and was hydrographically closed during its ...

Arroyo Cutting in the Southwestern U.S. part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Introduction In the semiarid southwestern United States, water is extremely important. However, most streams in the region are ephemeral, meaning that they are dry for much of the year and flow only during flash ...

Eolian Landforms and Deposits of the Eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
The Eastern Snake River Plain (ESRP) is a northeast-trending, 300 kilometer-long depression underlain by Cenozoic volcanic rocks (Fig. 1). Well-known for many examples of volcanic landforms including basalt lava ...

Tunnel Channels of the Saginaw Lobe, Michigan, USA part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Introduction Drainage of meltwater from a glacier occurs at the surface of the glacier, as well as internally and between the ice and its bed. Different components of the meltwater drainage system commonly ...

Catastrophic glacial-lake outburst spillways: form and process relationships. part of Vignettes:Vignette Collection
Proglacial Lake outbursts along the southern margins of the Laurentide Ice Sheet As the Laurentide Ice Sheet retreated northward through the Great Plains and midwest area of North America, meltwater drainage ...