Getting started with badlands¶
Basin and Landscape Dynamics (Badlands) is a long-term surface evolution model built to simulate landscape development, sediment transport and sedimentary basins formation from upstream regions down to marine environments.
What’s in the box?¶
Badlands is an open-source Python-based code and can be used to simulate:
- hillslope processes (linear & non-linear diffusion),
- fluvial incision (Stream Power Law, Transport Capacity Law),
- sediment transport and deposition,
- wave-induced longshore drift transport,
- reef growth and carbonate platform formation,
- submarine gravity currents (turbidity currents),
- spatially and temporally varying tectonic (horizontal + vertical displacements) and
- effects of climate changes (rainfall) and/or sea-level fluctuations.
This screencast illustrates some of the code’s features…
Hand's on!¶
Capabilities¶
- Usage
- Simulated Processes
- XML input description
Help & Projects¶
Code Source¶