Recent numerical and physical modelling has claimed that environmental signals are entirely ‘shredded’ or ‘scrambled’ during fluvial sediment transfer processes, but landform and associated sedimentary records worldwide suggest otherwise. One probable reason for this apparent discrepancy is that many catchments contain depositional ‘niches’ , such as cutoffs, flood basins and identifiable deposits from single large events (e.g.
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