Progress in Geomorphology Research on Young Gully in Loess Plateau
Recently an increasing number of researchers show the interests in loess young gully and distinguish it from gully system which include rill,shallow gully,young gully,gully and river,due to its important role in watershed erosion sediments and geomorphologic development.They all focus on a deep understanding the characteristics of loess young gully,and its development,evolution with environment.Therefore this paper has done a review of research work about the conception,classification,automatic identification method,morphological characteristics analysis and development simulation of young gully.Based on those research work,the common geomorphologic characteristic is summarized by a comprehensive analysis of the existing definition.It is proposed that the future research will focus on automatic identification,three-dimension morphologic extraction and monitoring,morphological characteristics analysis,modeling gully development evolution based on system dynamics.
loess young gullyloess plateauautomatic identificationmorphologic characteristicsdevelopment evolution