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Decadal carbon discharge by a mountain stream is dominated by coarse organic matter (2015)
Journal Article
Turowski, J., Hilton, R., & Sparkes, R. (2016). Decadal carbon discharge by a mountain stream is dominated by coarse organic matter. Geology, 44(1), 27-30. https://doi.org/10.1130/g37192.1

Rapid erosion in mountain forests results in high rates of biospheric particulate organic carbon (POC) export by rivers, which can contribute to atmospheric carbon dioxide drawdown. However, coarse POC (CPOC) carried by particles >∼1 mm is rarely qua... Read More about Decadal carbon discharge by a mountain stream is dominated by coarse organic matter.

Seismically enhanced solute fluxes in the Yangtze River headwaters following the A.D. 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (2015)
Journal Article
Jin, Z., West, A., Zhang, F., An, Z., Hilton, R., Yu, J., …Wang, X. (2016). Seismically enhanced solute fluxes in the Yangtze River headwaters following the A.D. 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Geology, 44(1), 47-50. https://doi.org/10.1130/g37246.1

Large earthquakes alter physical and chemical processes at Earth’s surface, triggering landslides, fracturing rock, changing large-scale permeability, and influencing hydrologic pathways. The resulting effects on global chemical cycles are not fully... Read More about Seismically enhanced solute fluxes in the Yangtze River headwaters following the A.D. 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.

Erosion of organic carbon in the Arctic as a geological carbon dioxide sink (2015)
Journal Article
Hilton, R., Galy, V., Gaillardet, J., Dellinger, M., Bryant, C., O’Regan, M., …Calmels, D. (2015). Erosion of organic carbon in the Arctic as a geological carbon dioxide sink. Nature, 524(7563), 84-87. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14653

Soils of the northern high latitudes store carbon over millennial timescales (thousands of years) and contain approximately double the carbon stock of the atmosphere1, 2, 3. Warming and associated permafrost thaw can expose soil organic carbon and re... Read More about Erosion of organic carbon in the Arctic as a geological carbon dioxide sink.

Controls on fluvial evacuation of sediment from earthquake-triggered landslides (2015)
Journal Article
Wang, J., Jin, Z., Hilton, R., Zhang, F., Densmore, A., Li, G., & West, A. (2015). Controls on fluvial evacuation of sediment from earthquake-triggered landslides. Geology, 43(2), 115-118. https://doi.org/10.1130/g36157.1

Large earthquakes in active mountain belts can trigger landslides, which mobilize large volumes of clastic sediment. Delivery of this material to river channels may result in aggradation and flooding, while sediment residing on hillslopes may increas... Read More about Controls on fluvial evacuation of sediment from earthquake-triggered landslides.