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### Furthermore, before attempting to apply these codes to another study area, it is important to make sure that a number of assumptions in the natural setting are met. These assumptions include, but are not limited to:

- The catchment is an erosional, fluvially-dominated, bedrock system (i.e., no deposition, no evidence of past glaciation, and no alluvial rivers).
- The catchment network has no obvious evidence of recent reorganization or unstable drainage divides (e.g., no evidence of recent river capture and no strongly asymmetric catchment divides).
- The catchment network has no obvious evidence of recent reorganization or unstable drainage divides (e.g., no evidence of recent river capture or strongly asymmetric drainage divides).
- Erodibility is relatively uniform throughout the catchment (i.e., roughly uniform rock type, no strong precipitation gradients).
- Rock uplift appears spatially uniform (i.e., no evidence of local or regional tilting and no active faults cutting the catchment).
- The uplift and exhumation history can reasonably be approximated at vertical only (i.e., not significantly horizontal tectonic velocities).
- The uplift and exhumation history can reasonably be approximated as one-dimentionsal in the vertical direction (i.e., no significantly horizontal tectonic velocities).
- The catchments are not too large (no firm size threshold, but the larger the basin, the more likely the assumptions will be violated).
- The outlet location is fixed with time.

Note that this is not a comprehensive list, but these are some of the assumptions that must be met for this code to be meaningfully applied to a given catchment.

For an example of working through a list of assumptions in conducting similar catchment-scale inversions, please see Gallen and Fernández-Blanco (2021).

### If you use these codes of modified versions of these codes for scientific research, please cite Glotzbach (2015) and Gallen et al. (2023).
### If you use these codes of modified versions of these codes for scientific research, cite Glotzbach (2015) and Gallen et al. (2023).

### References:

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