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An ancient river landscape preserved beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (2023)
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Jamieson, S. S. R., Ross, N., Paxman, G. J. G., Clubb, F. J., Young, D. A., Yan, S., …Siegert, M. J. (2023). An ancient river landscape preserved beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Nature Communications, 14(1), Article 6507. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42152-2

The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) has its origins ca. 34 million years ago. Since then, the impact of climate change and past fluctuations in the EAIS margin has been reflected in periods of extensive vs. restricted ice cover and the modification o... Read More about An ancient river landscape preserved beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Himalayan valley-floor widths controlled by tectonically-driven exhumation (2023)
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Clubb, F. J., Mudd, S. M., Schildgen, T. F., van der Beek, P. A., Devrani, R., & Sinclair, H. D. (2023). Himalayan valley-floor widths controlled by tectonically-driven exhumation. Nature Geoscience, 16, 739–746. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01238-8

Himalayan rivers transport around a gigaton of sediment annually to ocean basins. Mountain valleys are an important component of this routing system: storage in these valleys acts to buffer climatic and tectonic signals recorded by downstream sedimen... Read More about Himalayan valley-floor widths controlled by tectonically-driven exhumation.

Continuous measurements of valley floor width in mountainous landscapes (2022)
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Clubb, F. J., Weir, E. F., & Mudd, S. M. (2022). Continuous measurements of valley floor width in mountainous landscapes. Earth Surface Dynamics, 10(3), 437-456. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-10-437-2022

Mountainous landscapes often feature alluviated valleys that control both ecosystem diversity and the distribution of human populations. Alluviated, flat valley floors also play a key role in determining flood hazard in these landscapes. Various mech... Read More about Continuous measurements of valley floor width in mountainous landscapes.

Impact of changing concavity indices on channel steepness and divide migration metrics (2021)
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Gailleton, B., Mudd, S. M., Clubb, F. J., Grieve, S. W., & Hurst, M. D. (2021). Impact of changing concavity indices on channel steepness and divide migration metrics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 126(10), Article e2020JF006060. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020jf006060

The concavity index, urn:x-wiley:21699003:media:jgrf21424:jgrf21424-math-0001, describes how quickly river channel gradient declines downstream. It is used in calculations of normalized channel steepness index, urn:x-wiley:21699003:media:jgrf21424:jg... Read More about Impact of changing concavity indices on channel steepness and divide migration metrics.

Differences in channel and hillslope geometry record a migrating uplift wave at the Mendocino Triple Junction (2019)
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Clubb, F., Mudd, S., Hurst, M., & Grieve, S. (2020). Differences in channel and hillslope geometry record a migrating uplift wave at the Mendocino Triple Junction. Geology, 48(2), 184-188. https://doi.org/10.1130/g46939.1

Tectonic plate motion, and the resulting change in land surface elevation, has been shown to have a fundamental impact on landscape morphology. Changes to uplift rates can drive a response in fluvial channels, which then drives changes to hillslopes.... Read More about Differences in channel and hillslope geometry record a migrating uplift wave at the Mendocino Triple Junction.

Detection of channel-hillslope coupling along a tectonic gradient (2019)
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Hurst, M. D., Grieve, S. W., Clubb, F. J., & Mudd, S. M. (2019). Detection of channel-hillslope coupling along a tectonic gradient. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 522, 30-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2019.06.018

Landscape morphology reflects the spatial and temporal history of erosion. Erosion in turn embodies the competition between tectonic and climatic processes. Quantitative analysis of topography can therefore reveal the driving tectonic conditions that... Read More about Detection of channel-hillslope coupling along a tectonic gradient.

Clustering River Profiles to Classify Geomorphic Domains (2019)
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Clubb, F. J., Bookhagen, B., & Rheinwalt, A. (2019). Clustering River Profiles to Classify Geomorphic Domains. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124(6), 1417-1439. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jf005025

The structure and organization of river networks has been used for decades to investigate the influence of climate and tectonics on landscapes. The majority of these studies either analyze rivers in profile view by extracting channel steepness or cal... Read More about Clustering River Profiles to Classify Geomorphic Domains.

A segmentation approach for the reproducible extraction and quantification of knickpoints from river long profiles (2019)
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Gailleton, B., Mudd, S. M., Clubb, F. J., Peifer, D., & Hurst, M. D. (2019). A segmentation approach for the reproducible extraction and quantification of knickpoints from river long profiles. Earth Surface Dynamics, 7(1), 211-230. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-211-2019

Changes in the steepness of river profiles or abrupt vertical steps (i.e. waterfalls) are thought to be indicative of changes in erosion rates, lithology or other factors that affect landscape evolution. These changes are referred to as knickpoints o... Read More about A segmentation approach for the reproducible extraction and quantification of knickpoints from river long profiles.