Gully morphology is an important part of loess landform research.Along with gully development,the variation of its cross section is the most significant,and it can intuitively reflect the characteristics of the latera...Gully morphology is an important part of loess landform research.Along with gully development,the variation of its cross section is the most significant,and it can intuitively reflect the characteristics of the lateral widening of the gully slope.Therefore,in-depth research of the variation of the cross-sectional morphology of the gully is helpful to understanding the development process of the loess gully.Based on the DEMs(Digital Elevation Model)of nine periods of an indoor simulated loess small watershed,this paper studies the evolution model of a complete branch ditch in the watershed using the digital terrain analysis theory and method.Results show that with the development of the gully,the average gradient of the gully slope continuously decreases,and the slope morphology is mostly a concave slope along the slope direction.The degree of downward concave first increases and then gradually tends to be gentle.The gully erosion mode is gradually transformed from downward cutting erosion to lateral erosion.The more mature the gully development,the lower the depth of gully bottom cutting is compared with the width of gully widening.Furthermore,the surface cutting depth tends to be stable and the slope is stable.Then,the transformation law of the slope morphology of the gully cross section with the development of the gully is studied,and the prediction model of the transformation of the slope morphology of the gully cross section is established by using the Markov chain.The Markov model can better reflect the dynamic change of the slope morphology of the gully cross section,which is of great significance to revealing the external performance and internal mechanism of the gully morphology.展开更多
基金support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41930102 and 41571383).
文摘Gully morphology is an important part of loess landform research.Along with gully development,the variation of its cross section is the most significant,and it can intuitively reflect the characteristics of the lateral widening of the gully slope.Therefore,in-depth research of the variation of the cross-sectional morphology of the gully is helpful to understanding the development process of the loess gully.Based on the DEMs(Digital Elevation Model)of nine periods of an indoor simulated loess small watershed,this paper studies the evolution model of a complete branch ditch in the watershed using the digital terrain analysis theory and method.Results show that with the development of the gully,the average gradient of the gully slope continuously decreases,and the slope morphology is mostly a concave slope along the slope direction.The degree of downward concave first increases and then gradually tends to be gentle.The gully erosion mode is gradually transformed from downward cutting erosion to lateral erosion.The more mature the gully development,the lower the depth of gully bottom cutting is compared with the width of gully widening.Furthermore,the surface cutting depth tends to be stable and the slope is stable.Then,the transformation law of the slope morphology of the gully cross section with the development of the gully is studied,and the prediction model of the transformation of the slope morphology of the gully cross section is established by using the Markov chain.The Markov model can better reflect the dynamic change of the slope morphology of the gully cross section,which is of great significance to revealing the external performance and internal mechanism of the gully morphology.
