Palaeozoic co-evolution of rivers and vegetation: a synthesis of current knowledge

Martin R. Gibling; Neil S. Davies; Howard J. Falcon-Lang; Arden Roy Bashforth; William A. DiMichele; Michael C. Rygel; Alessandro Ielpi

doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2013.12.003

Palaeozoic co-evolution of rivers and vegetation: a synthesis of current knowledge

Martin R. Gibling, Neil S. Davies, Howard J. Falcon-Lang, Arden Roy Bashforth, William A. DiMichele, Michael C. Rygel, Alessandro Ielpi

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Abstract

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.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Proceedings of the Geologists' Association
Vol/bind	125
Udgave nummer	5-6
Sider (fra-til)	524-533
ISSN	0016-7878
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2013.12.003
Status	Udgivet - 1 dec. 2014
Udgivet eksternt	Ja

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