River discharge variability as the link between climate and fluvial fan formation

There are two contrasting hypotheses on whether fluvial fans need specific climate conditions to form. Deduction of climatic and tectonic signals from landscapes and the sedimentary record is a key aim in geology and geomorphology. It is thus of great interest to obtain recognition criteria for specific climate changes in the sedimentary record in general, and fluvial fans in particular, because they may form the bulk of the continental fluvial...