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- Third Party Resource Title: Modeling River Long Profiles
- Third Party Resource Link: https://serc.carleton.edu/matlab_computation2016/activities/160574.html
- Description: This project or multi-lab activity is designed to teach students about modeling landscape change caused by rivers over large time and spatial scales (e.g., the incision of Grand Canyon). Basic working knowledge of geomorphology of rivers is assumed but MATLAB experience is not, so students will both build on MATLAB ability and on how rivers can change as controlling variables are changed like uplift rate and the ability of rock to resist erosion. This is built on a 1-D stream power model-derived numerical code, where several variations in activities are available for exploration where structure and scaffolding decreases with increasing difficulty through the series.
- Publish Year: 2016
- Institution: Colorado State University
