Palaeozoic co-evolution of rivers and vegetation: a synthesis of current knowledge
Palaeozoic co-evolution of rivers and vegetation: a synthesis of current knowledge
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DOI：
10.1016/j.pgeola.2013.12.003
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发表时间：
2014-12-01
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Ielpi, A.
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作者：
Gibling, M. R.;Davies, N. S.;Ielpi, A.
随着古生代植被的进化，陆地景观发生了实质性的变化，特别是在泥盆纪到石炭纪的1.2亿年间隔期间。早古生代的河流系是片状辫状河系——宽、浅、砂质河流，河岸没有粘性，容易被侵蚀。在不断进化的树根和树木的影响下，稳定了河岸，并为河道增加了大量的木质碎屑，一系列新的河流平台和建筑风格开始突出，包括河道和岛屿辫状系统，蜿蜒和分支系统，以及稳定的泥泞洪泛平原。河流系统与植物和动物共同进化，产生了新的生态空间，我们推断这将促进生物进化。到石炭纪末期，大多数具有现代河流系统特征的地貌已经形成。(C) 2013地质工作者协会。Elsevier Ltd.出版。版权所有。
As vegetation evolved during the Palaeozoic Era, terrestrial landscapes were substantially transformed, especially during the 120 million year interval from the Devonian through the Carboniferous. Early Palaeozoic river systems were of sheet-braided style - broad, shallow, sandbed rivers with non-cohesive and readily eroded banks. Under the influence of evolving roots and trees that stabilised banks and added large woody debris to channels, a range of new fluvial planform and architectural styles came to prominence, including channelled- and island-braided systems, meandering and anabranching systems, and stable muddy floodplains. River systems co-evolved with plants and animals, generating new ecospace that we infer would have promoted biological evolution. By the end of the Carboniferous, most landforms characteristic of modern fluvial systems were in existence. (C) 2013 The Geologists' Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.