@article{eprints1178, number = {5}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, journal = {Physical Review E}, author = {Guido Caldarelli and Achille Giacometti and Amos Maritan and Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe and Andrea Rinaldo}, title = {Randomly pinned landscape evolution}, volume = {55}, year = {1997}, pages = {R4865--R4868}, keywords = {PACS: 05.40.+j, 68.70.+w }, 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/} }