RECENT UPLIFT AND PLANO-ALTIMETRIC CONFIGURATION IN SOME ITALIAN DRAINAGE BASINS

Abstract

In this paper the attempt is made to better specify the possi­ble influence of different uplift rates on the configuration of drai­nage basins. A particular kind of analysis, already tested and vali­dated in previous studies, is followed. It showed that the cause/effect relations between plano-altimetrie configuration of drainage basins and morphogenetic processes can be quantitatively expressed by equations which connect the hypsometric integrai values Cls) to the values of some geomorphic parameters; such parameters describe the morphogenetic processes density. [...]