List of works - Kelin X. Whipple

A Comparative View of Glacial and Periglacial Landforms on Earth and Mars

scientific article

A Late Miocene acceleration of exhumation in the Himalayan crystalline core

Active deformation and Plio-Pleistocene fluvial reorganization of the western Kura fold–thrust belt, Georgia: implications for the evolution of the Greater Caucasus Mountains

scientific article published on 13 August 2020

Active out-of-sequence thrust faulting in the central Nepalese Himalaya

scientific article published in Nature

Active shortening within the Himalayan orogenic wedge implied by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake

scholarly article by Kelin X. Whipple et al published 22 August 2016 in Nature Geoscience

Along-strike variation in catchment morphology and cosmogenic denudation rates reveal the pattern and history of footwall uplift, Main Gulf Escarpment, Baja California

scholarly article

Arroyo channel head evolution in a flash-flood–dominated discontinuous ephemeral stream system

scholarly article

Bedrock Rivers and the Geomorphology of Active Orogens

scholarly article

Beyond threshold hillslopes: Channel adjustment to base-level fall in tectonically active mountain ranges

article

Can springs cut canyons into rock?

scholarly article

Cenozoic Evolution of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado Plateau Driven by Mantle Dynamics? ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

Channel Dynamics, Sediment Transport, and the Slope of Alluvial Fans: Experimental Study

scientific article published in November 1998

Channel response to tectonic forcing: field analysis of stream morphology and hydrology in the Mendocino triple junction region, northern California

article

Characterization of slow slip rate faults in humid areas: Cimandiri fault zone, Indonesia

scholarly article by G. I. Marliyani et al published December 2016 in Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface

Chemical weathering response to tectonic forcing: A soils perspective from the San Gabriel Mountains, California

article

Climate controls on erosion in tectonically active landscapes

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

Colorado River chronostratigraphy at Lee's Ferry, Arizona, and the Colorado Plateau bull's-eye of incision: COMMENT

scientific article

Complexities of landscape evolution during incision through layered stratigraphy with contrasts in rock strength

scientific article published in 2016

Constraints on the tectonic and landscape evolution of the Bhutan Himalaya from thermochronometry

scholarly article by B. A. Adams et al published June 2015 in Tectonics

Controls on topography and erosion of the north-central Andes

scientific article published in 2023

Correction to “Late Cenozoic structural and tectonic development of the western margin of the central Andean Plateau in southwest Peru”

article

Criteria and Tools for Determining Drainage Divide Stability

Criteria and tools for determining drainage divide stability

scholarly article by Adam M. Forte & Kelin X. Whipple published July 2018 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Decoupling of modern shortening rates, climate, and topography in the Caucasus

scholarly article by Adam M. Forte et al published September 2016 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Diagnosing climatic and tectonic controls on topography: Eastern flank of the northern Bolivian Andes

scientific article published in 2014

Differential Movement across Byrd Glacier, Antarctica, as indicated by Apatite (U–Th)/He thermochronology and geomorphological analysis

scientific article

Distribution of active rock uplift along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from bedrock channel longitudinal profiles

scientific article published in 2003

Drainage basins and channel incision on Mars

scientific article published in February 2002

Drainage network reveals patterns and history of active deformation in the eastern Greater Caucasus

scientific article published in 2015

Dynamics of the stream-power river incision model: Implications for height limits of mountain ranges, landscape response timescales, and research needs

scholarly article

Epigenetic gorges in fluvial landscapes

scientific article published in November 2008

Erosion rates driven by channel network incision in the Bolivian Andes

scientific article published in 2005

Evidence for Pleistocene Low-Angle Normal Faulting in the Annapurna-Dhaulagiri Region, Nepal

article

Evidence for Plio-Pleistocene north-south extension at the southern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, Nyalam region

article

Evidence for Pliocene–Quaternary normal faulting in the hinterland of the Bhutan Himalaya

article

Existence of a continental-scale river system in eastern Tibet during the late Cretaceous-early Palaeogene

scientific article published on 13 December 2021

Experimental Study of the Grain‐Flow, Fluid‐Mud Transition in Debris Flows

scientific article

Feedbacks among climate, erosion, and tectonics in a critical wedge orogen

Fluvial Landscape Response Time: How Plausible Is Steady-State Denudation?

scientific article published in April 2001

Formation of fluvial hanging valleys: Theory and simulation

scholarly article

Geomorphic constraints on surface uplift, exhumation, and plateau growth in the Red River region, Yunnan Province, China

scientific article

Geomorphic constraints on the age of the western Grand Canyon

scholarly article

Geomorphic limits to climate-induced increases in topographic relief

scientific article published in Nature

Geophysics. Can erosion drive tectonics?

scientific article published on 01 November 2014

Hanging valleys in fluvial systems: Controls on occurrence and implications for landscape evolution

scholarly article

Has focused denudation sustained active thrusting at the Himalayan topographic front?

scholarly article

Hydroplaning of subaqueous debris flows

scientific article

Ice thickness and topographic relief in glaciated landscapes of the western USA

scholarly article

Implications of sediment-flux-dependent river incision models for landscape evolution

scientific article

Implications of the shear stress river incision model for the timescale of postorogenic decay of topography

scientific article published in 2003

Importance of a stochastic distribution of floods and erosion thresholds in the bedrock river incision problem

scholarly article

In situ development of high-elevation, low-relief landscapes via duplex deformation in the Eastern Himalayan hinterland, Bhutan

scientific article

Influence of Spatial Rainfall Gradients on River Longitudinal Profiles and the Topographic Expression of Spatially and Temporally Variable Climates in Mountain Landscapes

scientific article published in December 2021

Influence of Spatial Rainfall Gradients on River Longitudinal Profiles and the Topographic Expression of Spatio-temporally Variable Climate in Mountain Landscapes

preprint

Interactions between onshore bedrock-channel incision and nearshore wave-base erosion forced by eustasy and tectonics

Isolating climatic, tectonic, and lithologic controls on mountain landscape evolution

scientific article published on 20 January 2023

Knickpoint initiation and distribution within fluvial networks: 236 waterfalls in the Waipaoa River, North Island, New Zealand

scholarly article

Late Cenozoic evolution of the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from 40Ar/39Ar and (U-Th)/He thermochronology

Scientific article from 2002

Late Cenozoic structural and tectonic development of the western margin of the central Andean Plateau in southwest Peru

article

Late Cenozoic uplift of southeastern Tibet

scholarly article

Low variability runoff inhibits coupling of climate, tectonics, and topography in the Greater Caucasus

scientific article published in April 2022

Neotectonics of the Min Shan, China: Implications for mechanisms driving Quaternary deformation along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

scientific article published in March 2000

Neotectonics of the Thakkhola graben and implications for recent activity on the South Tibetan fault system in the central Nepal Himalaya

scholarly article

Neotectonics of the central Nepalese Himalaya: Constraints from geomorphology, detrital40Ar/39Ar thermochronology, and thermal modeling

scientific article published in 2006

Numerical modeling of non–steady-state river profile evolution using a sediment-flux-dependent incision model

article

Open‐Channel Flow of Bingham Fluids: Applications in Debris‐Flow Research

scientific article published in March 1997

Orogen response to changes in climatic and tectonic forcing

scholarly article

Orogenic-wedge deformation and potential for great earthquakes in the central Andean backarc

scientific article published on 8 May 2011

Orographic precipitation patterns, stream power, and river longitudinal profiles: Predictions and implications for detecting climate’s influence in mountain landscapes

scientific article published on 4 March 2021

Precipitation and evapotranspiration controls on daily runoff variability in the contiguous United States and Puerto Rico

scientific article published in 2016

Predictions of steady state and transient landscape morphology using sediment-flux-dependent river incision models

scholarly article

Preservation or piracy: Diagnosing low-relief, high-elevation surface formation mechanisms

article

Quantifying canyon incision and Andean Plateau surface uplift, southwest Peru: A thermochronometer and numerical modeling approach

scholarly article

Quaternary deformation, river steepening, and heavy precipitation at the front of the Higher Himalayan ranges

Rapid incision of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon - insights from channel profiles, local incision rates, and modeling of lithologic controls

scientific article published in 2009

Rates and processes of bedrock incision by the Upper Ukak River since the 1912 Novarupta ash flow in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska

scientific article published in September 2000

Regional incision of the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

article

Resistant rock layers amplify cosmogenically‐determined erosion rates

scientific article published on 8 January 2020

River incision into bedrock: Mechanics and relative efficacy of plucking, abrasion, and cavitation

scientific article (publication date: March 2000)

Short communication: The Topographic Analysis Kit (TAK) for TopoToolbox

scholarly article published 20 July 2018

Southward extrusion of Tibetan crust and its effect on Himalayan tectonics

scientific article published in 2001

Surface uplift, tectonics, and erosion of eastern Tibet from large-scale drainage patterns

article by Marin Clark et al published 17 January 2004 in Tectonics

Tectonic control of topography, rainfall patterns, and erosion during rapid post–12 Ma uplift of the Bolivian Andes

scientific article

Tectonics from topography: Procedures, promise, and pitfalls

The Colorado River in Glen Canyon during the Pleistocene—Incision Rates, their Uncertainties, and the Possibility of Ancient Impoundments ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

The influence of erosion thresholds and runoff variability on the relationships among topography, climate, and erosion rate

scholarly article

The thermochronologic record of erosion and magmatism in the Canyonlands region of the Colorado Plateau

Timescales of landscape response to divide migration and drainage capture: Implications for the role of divide mobility in landscape evolution

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 122 no. 1, January 2017

Transition from a singly vergent to doubly vergent wedge in a young orogen: The Greater Caucasus

scientific article published in 2014

Transport slopes, sediment cover, and bedrock channel incision in the Henry Mountains, Utah

scientific article published on 5 May 2009

Uplift of the western margin of the Andean plateau revealed from canyon incision history, southern Peru

scientific article

When knickzones limit upstream transmission of base-level fall: An example from Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i

scientific article published on 11 October 2022

List of works by Kelin X. Whipple

A Comparative View of Glacial and Periglacial Landforms on Earth and Mars

A Late Miocene acceleration of exhumation in the Himalayan crystalline core

Active deformation and Plio-Pleistocene fluvial reorganization of the western Kura fold–thrust belt, Georgia: implications for the evolution of the Greater Caucasus Mountains

Active out-of-sequence thrust faulting in the central Nepalese Himalaya

Active shortening within the Himalayan orogenic wedge implied by the 2015 Gorkha earthquake

Along-strike variation in catchment morphology and cosmogenic denudation rates reveal the pattern and history of footwall uplift, Main Gulf Escarpment, Baja California

Arroyo channel head evolution in a flash-flood–dominated discontinuous ephemeral stream system

Bedrock Rivers and the Geomorphology of Active Orogens

Beyond threshold hillslopes: Channel adjustment to base-level fall in tectonically active mountain ranges

Can springs cut canyons into rock?

Cenozoic Evolution of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado Plateau Driven by Mantle Dynamics? ⬇️

Channel Dynamics, Sediment Transport, and the Slope of Alluvial Fans: Experimental Study

Channel response to tectonic forcing: field analysis of stream morphology and hydrology in the Mendocino triple junction region, northern California

Characterization of slow slip rate faults in humid areas: Cimandiri fault zone, Indonesia

Chemical weathering response to tectonic forcing: A soils perspective from the San Gabriel Mountains, California

Climate controls on erosion in tectonically active landscapes

Colorado River chronostratigraphy at Lee's Ferry, Arizona, and the Colorado Plateau bull's-eye of incision: COMMENT

Complexities of landscape evolution during incision through layered stratigraphy with contrasts in rock strength

Constraints on the tectonic and landscape evolution of the Bhutan Himalaya from thermochronometry

Controls on topography and erosion of the north-central Andes

Correction to “Late Cenozoic structural and tectonic development of the western margin of the central Andean Plateau in southwest Peru”

Criteria and Tools for Determining Drainage Divide Stability

Criteria and tools for determining drainage divide stability

Decoupling of modern shortening rates, climate, and topography in the Caucasus

Diagnosing climatic and tectonic controls on topography: Eastern flank of the northern Bolivian Andes

Differential Movement across Byrd Glacier, Antarctica, as indicated by Apatite (U–Th)/He thermochronology and geomorphological analysis

Distribution of active rock uplift along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from bedrock channel longitudinal profiles

Drainage basins and channel incision on Mars

Drainage network reveals patterns and history of active deformation in the eastern Greater Caucasus

Dynamics of the stream-power river incision model: Implications for height limits of mountain ranges, landscape response timescales, and research needs

Epigenetic gorges in fluvial landscapes

Erosion rates driven by channel network incision in the Bolivian Andes

Evidence for Pleistocene Low-Angle Normal Faulting in the Annapurna-Dhaulagiri Region, Nepal

Evidence for Plio-Pleistocene north-south extension at the southern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, Nyalam region

Evidence for Pliocene–Quaternary normal faulting in the hinterland of the Bhutan Himalaya

Existence of a continental-scale river system in eastern Tibet during the late Cretaceous-early Palaeogene

Experimental Study of the Grain‐Flow, Fluid‐Mud Transition in Debris Flows

Feedbacks among climate, erosion, and tectonics in a critical wedge orogen

Fluvial Landscape Response Time: How Plausible Is Steady-State Denudation?

Formation of fluvial hanging valleys: Theory and simulation

Geomorphic constraints on surface uplift, exhumation, and plateau growth in the Red River region, Yunnan Province, China

Geomorphic constraints on the age of the western Grand Canyon

Geomorphic limits to climate-induced increases in topographic relief

Geophysics. Can erosion drive tectonics?

Hanging valleys in fluvial systems: Controls on occurrence and implications for landscape evolution

Has focused denudation sustained active thrusting at the Himalayan topographic front?

Hydroplaning of subaqueous debris flows

Ice thickness and topographic relief in glaciated landscapes of the western USA

Implications of sediment-flux-dependent river incision models for landscape evolution

Implications of the shear stress river incision model for the timescale of postorogenic decay of topography

Importance of a stochastic distribution of floods and erosion thresholds in the bedrock river incision problem

In situ development of high-elevation, low-relief landscapes via duplex deformation in the Eastern Himalayan hinterland, Bhutan

Influence of Spatial Rainfall Gradients on River Longitudinal Profiles and the Topographic Expression of Spatially and Temporally Variable Climates in Mountain Landscapes

Influence of Spatial Rainfall Gradients on River Longitudinal Profiles and the Topographic Expression of Spatio-temporally Variable Climate in Mountain Landscapes

Interactions between onshore bedrock-channel incision and nearshore wave-base erosion forced by eustasy and tectonics

Isolating climatic, tectonic, and lithologic controls on mountain landscape evolution

Knickpoint initiation and distribution within fluvial networks: 236 waterfalls in the Waipaoa River, North Island, New Zealand

Late Cenozoic evolution of the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau: Inferences from 40Ar/39Ar and (U-Th)/He thermochronology

Late Cenozoic structural and tectonic development of the western margin of the central Andean Plateau in southwest Peru

Late Cenozoic uplift of southeastern Tibet

Low variability runoff inhibits coupling of climate, tectonics, and topography in the Greater Caucasus

Neotectonics of the Min Shan, China: Implications for mechanisms driving Quaternary deformation along the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Neotectonics of the Thakkhola graben and implications for recent activity on the South Tibetan fault system in the central Nepal Himalaya

Neotectonics of the central Nepalese Himalaya: Constraints from geomorphology, detrital40Ar/39Ar thermochronology, and thermal modeling

Numerical modeling of non–steady-state river profile evolution using a sediment-flux-dependent incision model

Open‐Channel Flow of Bingham Fluids: Applications in Debris‐Flow Research

Orogen response to changes in climatic and tectonic forcing

Orogenic-wedge deformation and potential for great earthquakes in the central Andean backarc

Orographic precipitation patterns, stream power, and river longitudinal profiles: Predictions and implications for detecting climate’s influence in mountain landscapes

Precipitation and evapotranspiration controls on daily runoff variability in the contiguous United States and Puerto Rico

Predictions of steady state and transient landscape morphology using sediment-flux-dependent river incision models

Preservation or piracy: Diagnosing low-relief, high-elevation surface formation mechanisms

Quantifying canyon incision and Andean Plateau surface uplift, southwest Peru: A thermochronometer and numerical modeling approach

Quaternary deformation, river steepening, and heavy precipitation at the front of the Higher Himalayan ranges

Rapid incision of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon - insights from channel profiles, local incision rates, and modeling of lithologic controls

Rates and processes of bedrock incision by the Upper Ukak River since the 1912 Novarupta ash flow in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, Alaska

Regional incision of the eastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau

Resistant rock layers amplify cosmogenically‐determined erosion rates

River incision into bedrock: Mechanics and relative efficacy of plucking, abrasion, and cavitation