@article{PrasicekHermanRobletal.2018,
  author    = {Prasicek, G{\"u}nther and Herman, Frederic and Robl, J{\"o}rg and Braun, Jean},
  title     = {Glacial steady state topography controlled by the coupled influence of tectonics and climate},
  series = {Journal of geophysical research : Earth surface},
  volume    = {123},
  journal   = {Journal of geophysical research : Earth surface},
  number    = {6},
  publisher = {American Geophysical Union},
  address   = {Washington},
  issn      = {2169-9003},
  doi       = {10.1029/2017JF004559},
  pages     = {1344 -- 1362},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Glaciers and rivers are the main agents of mountain erosion. While in the fluvial realm empirical relationships and their mathematical description, such as the stream power law, improved the understanding of fundamental controls on landscape evolution, simple constraints on glacial topography and governing scaling relations are widely lacking. We present a steady state solution for longitudinal profiles along eroding glaciers in a coupled system that includes tectonics and climate. We combined the shallow ice approximation and a glacial erosion rule to calculate ice surface and bed topography from prescribed glacier mass balance gradient and rock uplift rate. Our approach is inspired by the classic application of the stream power law for describing a fluvial steady state but with the striking difference that, in the glacial realm, glacier mass balance is added as an altitude-dependent variable. From our analyses we find that ice surface slope and glacial relief scale with uplift rate with scaling exponents indicating that glacial relief is less sensitive to uplift rate than relief in most fluvial landscapes. Basic scaling relations controlled by either basal sliding or internal deformation follow a power law with the exponent depending on the exponents for the glacial erosion rule and Glen's flow law. In a mixed scenario of sliding and deformation, complicated scaling relations with variable exponents emerge. Furthermore, a cutoff in glacier mass balance or cold ice in high elevations can lead to substantially larger scaling exponents which may provide an explanation for high relief in high latitudes.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{FalkowskiEhlersMadellaetal.2021,
  author    = {Falkowski, Sarah and Ehlers, Todd and Madella, Andrea and Glotzbach, Christoph and Georgieva, Viktoria and Strecker, Manfred},
  title     = {Glacial catchment erosion from detrital zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronology},
  series = {GR / AGU, American Geophysical Union: Earth surface},
  volume    = {126},
  journal   = {GR / AGU, American Geophysical Union: Earth surface},
  number    = {10},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  address   = {Hoboken, NJ},
  issn      = {2169-9003},
  doi       = {10.1029/2021JF006141},
  pages     = {26},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {Alpine glacial erosion exerts a first-order control on mountain topography and sediment production, but its mechanisms are poorly understood. Observational data capable of testing glacial erosion and transport laws in glacial models are mostly lacking. New insights, however, can be gained from detrital tracer thermochronology. Detrital tracer thermochronology works on the premise that thermochronometer bedrock ages vary systematically with elevation, and that detrital downstream samples can be used to infer the source elevation sectors of sediments. We analyze six new detrital samples of different grain sizes (sand and pebbles) from glacial deposits and the modern river channel integrated with data from 18 previously analyzed bedrock samples from an elevation transect in the Leones Valley, Northern Patagonian Icefield, Chile (46.7 degrees S). We present 622 new detrital zircon (U-Th)/He (ZHe) single-grain analyses and 22 new bedrock ZHe analyses for two of the bedrock samples to determine age reproducibility. Results suggest that glacial erosion was focused at and below the Last Glacial Maximum and neoglacial equilibrium line altitudes, supporting previous modeling studies. Furthermore, grain age distributions from different grain sizes (sand, pebbles) might indicate differences in erosion mechanisms, including mass movements at steep glacial valley walls. Finally, our results highlight complications and opportunities in assessing glacigenic environments, such as dynamics of sediment production, transport, transient storage, and final deposition, that arise from settings with large glacio-fluvial catchments.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{EgholmAndersenFaurschouKnudsenetal.2015,
  author    = {Egholm, David L. and Andersen, Jane Lund and Faurschou Knudsen, Mads and Jansen, John D. and Nielsen, S. B.},
  title     = {The periglacial engine of mountain erosion},
  series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  journal   = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe},
  number    = {552},
  issn      = {1866-8372},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-40971},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-409718},
  pages     = {20},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {There is growing recognition of strong periglacial control on bedrock erosion in mountain landscapes, including the shaping of low-relief surfaces at high elevations (summit flats). But, as yet, the hypothesis that frost action was crucial to the assumed Late Cenozoic rise in erosion rates remains compelling and untested. Here we present a landscape evolution model incorporating two key periglacial processes - regolith production via frost cracking and sediment transport via frost creep - which together are harnessed to variations in temperature and the evolving thickness of sediment cover. Our computational experiments time-integrate the contribution of frost action to shaping mountain topography over million-year timescales, with the primary and highly reproducible outcome being the development of flattish or gently convex summit flats. A simple scaling of temperature to marine delta O-18 records spanning the past 14 Myr indicates that the highest summit flats in mid-to high-latitude mountains may have formed via frost action prior to the Quaternary. We suggest that deep cooling in the Quaternary accelerated mechanical weathering globally by significantly expanding the area subject to frost. Further, the inclusion of subglacial erosion alongside periglacial processes in our computational experiments points to alpine glaciers increasing the long-term efficiency of frost-driven erosion by steepening hillslopes.},
  language  = {en}
}