The active mountains of New Zealand’s Southern Alps have hosted a large number of geomorphic investigations over the past few decades, attempting to understand how the landscape has evolved, and predict how it will evolve in future, in response to tectonic, seismic and gravitational drivers. These studies have established that the landscape behaves as an integrated system, in which understanding of any specific situation requires understanding of how uplift, seismicity, base-level change and fluvial and mass-movement erosion operate in combination. This chapter outlines a number of instances of this integrated view, including mountain land system evolution; the geomorphic cascades that can follow from major earthquakes; large landslide processes and sedimentology and their implications for understanding mountain geomorphology; the bedload transport capacity of rivers and its implications for river management; and reinterpretation of the origins of “glacial” cirques and terminal moraines; and briefly considers the hazard implications of some of these for ongoing human occupation of mountainous lands.
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