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Durham Research Online View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Durham Research Online Durham Research Online Deposited in DRO: 17 March 2020 Version of attached le: Published Version Peer-review status of attached le: Peer-reviewed Citation for published item: Evans, Ian S. (2019) 'The erosion of glaciated mountains : evidence from hypsoclinometry.', Revista de geomorfologie., 21 (1). pp. 5-14. Further information on publisher's website: https://doi.org/10.21094/rg.2019.006 Publisher's copyright statement: The copyright on this article is retained by the author(s). Authors grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are clearly identied. 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EVANSP 1 P DurhamP University, Department of Geography, Lower Mountjoy, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LE, United Kingdom Received 1 October 2019; Revised 14 November 2019; Accepted 20 November 2019 *Correspondence to: Ian EVANS e-mail: [email protected] ABSTRACT Mountain glaciation involves the erosion of cirques and troughs, which increase steep slopes but also produce gentle slopes in cirque floors and trough floors. This is expected to increase the variability of slope gradients at related altitudes. Taking a whole mountain range, its distributions of altitude and slope can be analysed to estab- lish a signal of glacial modification. Frequency distributions of altitude (hypsometry) and gradient (clinometry) alone do not seem adequate. Taking these two variables together – hypsoclinometry, plotting slope gradient against altitude – is more promising. Frequency distributions of slope gradient at different altitudes are exempli- fied here for mountain ranges in British Columbia and Romania, together with altitudinal variations of steep or gentle slopes. Cirque headwalls give the clearest morphometric signature of glaciation. Steep (especially the steepest) slopes are concentrated at cirque altitudes, increasing mean, median, standard deviation (SD) and inter-quartile range (IQR) of gradients, especially above cirque floors. There is only a small increase in SD and IQR at cirque floor altitudes. Hypsometric maxima and increased proportions of gentle slopes at cirque floor altitudes are clear only in moun - tain ranges densely occupied by cirques. This relates to the small proportion of each cirque (about 28%) occupied by the floor. Concentrations of steep slope aspects in directions favoured by local glaciers provide further evidence of glacial modification. The most general morphometric effect of glaciation, however, is the increase in steep slopes at cirque headwall altitudes. Thus it is possible to rank mountain ranges by degree of glacial modification. KEYWORDS hypsometry; clinometry; British Columbia; TanDEM–X; glacial erosion; cirque 1. Introduction ences best expressed quantitatively? One way is to There are many differences between glaciated and define and measure the specific landforms – cirques, unglaciated mountains, but how are these differ- arêtes, troughs and closed rock depressions – that 5 EVANS / Revista de Geomorfologie 21 (2019) characterize glacial erosion (Barr and Spagnolo, (at least in the Alps: Kühni and Pfiffner, 2001; Robl et 2015). Their sizes and densities show the degree of al., 2015a). Yet as glaciation produces gentle and glacial modification of mountain landforms. The reversed slopes (cirque floors and trough floors) as definition of specific landforms is progressing (in well as extra steep slopes (cirque headwalls and efficiency and objectivity) but remains subjective trough sides), plotting mean or median slope (Evans and Cox, 2017). For example, in some areas it against altitude is not sufficient. It is necessary to is difficult to distinguish shallow glacial cirques from plot frequency distributions of slope gradient at deep–seated rock slope failure scars, whose depos- different altitudes. This combination of hypsometry its may have been removed by glaciation. Glacial and clinometry is logically labelled hypsoclinometry, troughs are more difficult to define: an inverted and is more promising than the separate compo- parabola (U–) shape is characteristic but alluvial nents, as the excellent work of Robl et al. (2015a) on valley–floors obscure the distinction from fluvial the Alps has shown. valleys and make fitting a model to the bedrock This leads me to a number of specific hypotheses: surface problematic. 1. There are more gradients <20° at cirque floor al- Analysis of the land surface (Minár and Evans, titudes; 2016) can employ either specific or general geo- 2. There are more gradients >35° above cirque morphometry, or both. Thus in seeking greater ob- floors (i.e. cirque headwalls); jectivity it may be interesting to check for signals of 3. Higher standard deviations (SDs) and interquartile glaciation in general geomorphometry, e.g. to take ranges (IQRs) of gradients occur at cirque floor al- a whole mountain range and measure its distribu- titudes (because the altitude ranges of headwalls tions of altitude, slope gradient, slope aspect and and floors overlap: headwalls are found immediately curvatures. To start, frequency distributions of alti- above the lowest cirque floors). tude (hypsometry) and slope gradient (clinometry) These hypotheses are tested here for two have been considered. It is widely believed that that mountain ranges in British Columbia and compared cirque erosion around glacial Equilibrium Line Alti- with previous results from Romania. tudes (ELAs) has produced hypsometric maxima (high frequencies of altitude) (Mitchell and Mont- 2. Data and Methods gomery, 2006; Egholm et al., 2009). This is one of An increasing number of fairly accurate Digital Ele- the bases of the ‘glacial buzz-saw’ hypothesis that vation Models (DEMs) are now available with near– effective glacial erosion at such altitudes in the Late worldwide coverage. For geomorphological inter- Cenozoic has worked to limit mountain altitudes pretations, forest and human constructions can (Mîndrescu and Evans, 2014). The strength of the cause problems, but these are almost absent in hypsometric maximum should thus express at least mountains above timberline. In glaciated mountains, one component of the glacial modification of the main problems come from shadow (both solar mountains. shadow and radar shadow), glaciers and lakes. Hypsometric maxima, however, are somewhat The hypsoclinometry of 21 mountain ranges in fallible evidence as they may be produced in various Romania was analysed by Niculiţă and Evans (2018) ways (Evans et al., 2015; Robl et al., 2015, 2015a; from freely available SRTM data, gridded with 30 m Crest et al., 2017). It seems better to consider alti- horizontal resolution and analysed in ArcGIS. tude and gradient together, rather than separately. Here I focus on data for British Columbia, ex- Further evidence has thus been sought in the varia- tracted from TanDEM–X 1–degree tiles supplied by tion of mean or median slope gradient (slope angle) DLR (project DEM–METH 1517). These provide with altitude (elevation). Equilibrium models of flu- higher resolution (30 arc–second), and were gridded vial topography predict steady increases in both (by D. Milledge) at 12.5 m grid mesh. Mountain channel gradient and hillslope gradient with alti- range outlines were digitised, initially for the Shu- tude. In glaciated mountains, however, a flattening laps and Bendor Ranges on the interior side of the of this trend has been found at cirque floor altitudes southern Coast Mountains, some 175 km north of 6 The erosion of glaciated mountains: evidence from hypsoclinometry Vancouver. The data were extracted for whole using available masks for large lakes but digitising mountain ranges down to the valleys and lakes on other lake outlines. Lake areas were then treated as either side, and to passes separating them from ‘missing data’. (Alternatively, with more work, each other high ground. Note that below the ‘defining lake could be given its true altitude so that it shows pass’ – the highest point on the range boundary – up as zero gradients at the appropriate altitude). results for slope aspect become increasingly biased The altitude data were read into Stata as (x,y,z) trios as contours are not closed on that side of the range. and slope gradients and aspects were calculated Above that pass, as each higher contour encom- with a program by N.J. Cox, based on the formulae passes a smaller area, there is an expectation (but in Evans (1979). not an inevitability) that each contour may be Available (map–based) data for each cirque shorter and that the area in each successive band floor in these ranges include lowest, modal and (bin, class) of altitude will be less. maximum altitudes. To exclude extreme values, the As the data are radar–based, return scatter over lowest 5% and highest 5% are ignored, and the 05 water produces false values, with differences of tens and 95 percentiles of Lowest altitude plus the 95 of metres between adjacent points which should be percentile of Maximum floor altitude are used to on the same level. Thus lakes had to be masked out, Figure 1 The Bridge River District, British Columbia.
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