“…Recent quantitative research has focused on maximising the ability to accurately reconstruct the evolution of fluvial landscapes in the geologic past. Some efforts have centred on connecting landscape surface kinematics to stratal preservation (Paola & Borgman, 1991;Castelltort & Van Den Driessche, 2003;Jerolmack & Mohrig, 2005;Jerolmack & Paola, 2010;Hajek & Wolinsky, 2012;Ganti et al, 2013;Ganti et al, 2014;Reesink et al, 2015;Romans et al, 2016;Ganti et al, 2020;Straub et al, 2020) and a number of these studies have focused on Late Cretaceous fluvial strata in central Utah Trower et al, 2018;Ganti et al, 2019a). Meanwhile, other quantitative work has applied fluid and sediment transport models to stratigraphic field data, with an overarching goal of constraining the characteristics of catchments, regional systems or entire fluvial landscapes in the geological past (Ganti et al, 2019b;Lapôtre et al, 2019), or even on other planetary bodies (Lamb et al, 2012;Buhler et al, 2014;Hayden et al, 2019;Lapôtre et al, 2019).…”