Hillslope diffusion

Balancing and conserving mass is the key to link discharge of mobile hillslope material to landscape form.

Learning Goals

• Link a discharge (or flux) rule to a conservation-of-mass statement to construct a diffusion equation
• Intuit how this equation may predict rates of erosion and/or deposition across hillslopes

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