@article{eprints1178, publisher = {American Physical Society}, journal = {Physical Review E}, author = {Guido Caldarelli and Achille Giacometti and Amos Maritan and Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe and Andrea Rinaldo}, volume = {55}, number = {5}, pages = {R4865--R4868}, title = {Randomly pinned landscape evolution}, year = {1997}, abstract = {A simple scheme for the evolution of a fluvial landscape in heterogeneous environments is critically examined to capture the essential mechanism responsible for the recurrent scale-free landforms in the river basin. It is shown that, regardless of boundary and initial conditions, geomorphological constraints in the form of quenched randomly pinned regions play a key role in the robust emergence of aggregation patterns with a scaling behavior in agreement with that of real river basins. }, url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/1178/}, keywords = {PACS: 05.40.+j, 68.70.+w } }