Bedrock structural control on catchment-scale connectivity and alluvial fan processes, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco

Bedrock structural control on catchment-scale connectivity and alluvial fan processes, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco

Lithology is acknowledged to be an important internal catchment control on flow processes to adjacent alluvial fans. However, the role of inherited structural configurations (e.g. bedrock attitude) in catchment connectivity and sediment transport is rarely considered. We examine four young (

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