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Fig. 1

From: Abrupt drainage basin reorganization following a Pleistocene river capture

Fig. 1

Overview of the study area. a Location of the study area in China. b Shaded relief map showing elevations within the study area; the white line is the boundary of the upstream portion of the Chaiwen River Basin, and the lowest saddle in the divide between Daotang and Yihe Rivers (wind gap) is indicated as a dashed line. The red solid lines are faults and the dashed area around the elbow is shown in detail in Fig. 2. c Longitudinal profiles of the Chaiwen, Yihe, and Daotang Rivers. The dashed line is a hypothesized longitudinal profile of the paleo-channel that connected the upper Chaiwen River to the Yihe River before the capture event, and entrenchment and reversal of the Daotang River. The data for b and c are from ref. 39

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