Title
Sediment budget in the Ucayali River basin, an Andean tributary of the Amazon River
Date Issued
01 January 2014
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Santini W.
Martinez J.M.
Cochonneau G.
Vauchel P.
Baby P.
Carranza J.
Publisher(s)
Copernicus GmbH
Abstract
Formation of mountain ranges results from complex coupling between lithospheric deformation, mechanisms linked to subduction and surface processes: weathering, erosion, and climate. Today, erosion of the eastern Andean cordillera and sub-Andean foothills supplies over 99% of the sediment load passing through the Amazon Basin. Denudation rates in the upper Ucayali basin are rapid, favoured by a marked seasonality in this region and extreme precipitation cells above sedimentary strata, uplifted during Neogene times by a still active sub-Andean tectonic thrust. Around 40% of those sediments are trapped in the Ucayali retro-foreland basin system. Recent advances in remote sensing for Amazonian large rivers now allow us to complete the ground hydrological data. In this work, we propose a first estimation of the erosion and sedimentation budget of the Ucayali River catchment, based on spatial and conventional HYBAM Observatory network.
Start page
320
End page
325
Volume
367
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Meteorología y ciencias atmosféricas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84944674426
ISBN
9781907161452
ISSN of the container
01447815
Conference
IAHS-AISH Proceedings and Reports
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus