Upstream basin profile of a sediment-lubricated mountain ($x/\ell =P(d/d_{\infty })-P(3)$)

In front of the contact line in the sediment-lubricated viscous mountain model, $h=d$ and $d_x=3{\mu }_{s}U(d-d_{\infty })/(\rho g{d}^3)$. For $\delta =d/d_{\infty }$ and $\ell =\rho g{d}_{\infty }^3/(3{\mu }_{s}U)$, integration gives $x/\ell =P(\delta )-P(3)$, with $P(\delta )={\delta }^3/3+{\delta }^2/2+\delta +\ln (\delta -1)$. The branch $1<\delta \le 3$ is unique and tends exponentially to the uniform far-field depth.