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Evaluation of Mumiyo Deposits from East Antarctica as Archives for the Late Quaternary Environmental and Climatic History (2018)
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Berg, S., Melles, M., Hermichen, W., McClymont, E., Bentley, M., Hodgson, D., & Kuhn, G. (2019). Evaluation of Mumiyo Deposits from East Antarctica as Archives for the Late Quaternary Environmental and Climatic History. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 20(1), 260-276. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018gc008054

Mumiyo deposits form in the vicinity of snow petrel (Pagodroma nivea) nesting sites and consist of fossil stomach oil (mumiyo), guano and minerogenic material. Here, we evaluate mumiyo deposits from the inland mountain ranges of central Dronning Maud... Read More about Evaluation of Mumiyo Deposits from East Antarctica as Archives for the Late Quaternary Environmental and Climatic History.

A new framework for integrated, holistic, and transparent evaluation of inter-basin water transfer schemes (2020)
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Sinha, P., Rollason, E., Bracken, L. J., Wainwright, J., & Reaney, M. S. (2020). A new framework for integrated, holistic, and transparent evaluation of inter-basin water transfer schemes. Science of the Total Environment, 721, Article 137646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.137646

Water shortages are forecast to affect 50% of the world's population by 2030, impacting developing nations most acutely. To increase water security there has been a significant increase in Inter-basin Water Transfer (IBWT) schemes, engineering mega-p... Read More about A new framework for integrated, holistic, and transparent evaluation of inter-basin water transfer schemes.

Late Pliocene Cordilleran Ice Sheet development with warm Northeast Pacific sea surface temperatures (2020)
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Sánchez-Montes, M., McClymont, E., Lloyd, J., Müller, J., Cowan, E., Zorzi, C., & de Vernal, A. (2020). Late Pliocene Cordilleran Ice Sheet development with warm Northeast Pacific sea surface temperatures. Climate of the Past, 16(1), 299-313. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-16-299-2020

The initiation and evolution of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet are relatively poorly constrained. International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 341 recovered marine sediments at Site U1417 in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). Here we present alkenone-de... Read More about Late Pliocene Cordilleran Ice Sheet development with warm Northeast Pacific sea surface temperatures.

The Seasonality of Wetland and Riparian Taskscapes at Çatalhöyük (2020)
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Wolfhagen, J., Veropoulidou, R., Ayala, G., Filipović, D., Kabukcu, C., Lancelotti, C., …Wainwright, J. (2020). The Seasonality of Wetland and Riparian Taskscapes at Çatalhöyük. Near Eastern Archaeology, 83(2), 98-109. https://doi.org/10.1086/708446

Seasonal variation in the natural world of Neolithic Çatalhöyük shaped the organization of daily life and the social world of its residents. Seasonal cycles in climatic patterns, hydrology, growing seasons of wild and domestic plants, and seasonal be... Read More about The Seasonality of Wetland and Riparian Taskscapes at Çatalhöyük.

Quantifying structural diversity to better estimate change at mountain forest margins (2019)
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Morley, P. J., Donoghue, D. N., Chen, J., & Jump, A. S. (2019). Quantifying structural diversity to better estimate change at mountain forest margins. Remote Sensing of Environment, 223, 291-306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.01.027

Global environmental changes are driving shifts in forest distribution across the globe with significant implications for biodiversity and ecosystem function. At the upper elevational limit of forest distribution, patterns of forest advance and stasi... Read More about Quantifying structural diversity to better estimate change at mountain forest margins.

Twisted handaxes in Middle Pleistocene Britain and their implications for regional-scale cultural variation and the deep history of Acheulean hominin groups (2019)
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White, M., Ashton, N., & Bridgland, D. (2019). Twisted handaxes in Middle Pleistocene Britain and their implications for regional-scale cultural variation and the deep history of Acheulean hominin groups. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 85, 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2019.1

A better understood chronological framework for the Middle Pleistocene of Britain has enabled archaeologists to detect a number of temporally-restricted assemblage-types, based not on ‘culture historical’ schemes of typological progression but on ind... Read More about Twisted handaxes in Middle Pleistocene Britain and their implications for regional-scale cultural variation and the deep history of Acheulean hominin groups.

Complex and Cascading Triggering of Submarine Landslides and Turbidity Currents at Volcanic Islands Revealed From Integration of High-Resolution Onshore and Offshore Surveys (2018)
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Clare, M. A., Le Bas, T., Price, D. M., Hunt, J. E., Sear, D., Cartigny, M. J., …Cronin, S. (2018). Complex and Cascading Triggering of Submarine Landslides and Turbidity Currents at Volcanic Islands Revealed From Integration of High-Resolution Onshore and Offshore Surveys. Frontiers in Earth Science, 6, Article 223. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2018.00223

Submerged flanks of volcanic islands are prone to hazards including submarine landslides that may trigger damaging tsunamis and sediment-laden seafloor flows (called “turbidity currents”). These hazards can break seafloor infrastructure which is crit... Read More about Complex and Cascading Triggering of Submarine Landslides and Turbidity Currents at Volcanic Islands Revealed From Integration of High-Resolution Onshore and Offshore Surveys.

The Influence of Crustal Properties on Patterns of Quaternary Fluvial Stratigraphy in Eurasia (2018)
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Demir, T., Westaway, R., & Bridgland, D. (2018). The Influence of Crustal Properties on Patterns of Quaternary Fluvial Stratigraphy in Eurasia. Quaternary, 1(3), Article 28. https://doi.org/10.3390/quat1030028

Compilation of empirical data on river-terrace sequences from across Eurasia during successive International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) projects revealed marked contrasts between the records from different crustal provinces, notably between the East... Read More about The Influence of Crustal Properties on Patterns of Quaternary Fluvial Stratigraphy in Eurasia.

The Case Against Vast Glaciation in Valles Marineris, Mars (2018)
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Kissick, L. E., & Carbonneau, P. E. (2019). The Case Against Vast Glaciation in Valles Marineris, Mars. Icarus, 321, 803-823. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2018.12.021

The Valles Marineris of Mars form the largest system of interconnected canyons in the Solar System, where morphological, mineralogical, and structural evidence of widespread glaciation has been recently reported. However, neither precipitation models... Read More about The Case Against Vast Glaciation in Valles Marineris, Mars.

Weather patterns and all-cause mortality in England, UK (2019)
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Psistaki, K., Paschalidou, A. K., & McGregor, G. (2020). Weather patterns and all-cause mortality in England, UK. International Journal of Biometeorology, 64, 123-136. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-019-01803-0

Cold- and heat-related mortality poses significant public health concerns worldwide. Although there are numerous studies dealing with the association between extreme ambient temperature and mortality, only a small number adopt a synoptic climatologic... Read More about Weather patterns and all-cause mortality in England, UK.

X-ray computed tomography reveals that grain protrusion controls critical shear stress for entrainment in fluvial gravels (2019)
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Hodge, R., Voepel, H., Leyland, J., Sear, D., & Ahmed, S. (2020). X-ray computed tomography reveals that grain protrusion controls critical shear stress for entrainment in fluvial gravels. Geology, 48(2), 149-153. https://doi.org/10.1130/g46883.1

The critical shear stress (τc) for grain entrainment is a poorly constrained control on bedload transport rates in rivers. Direct calculations of τc have been hindered by the inability to measure the geometry of in situ grains; i.e., the shape and lo... Read More about X-ray computed tomography reveals that grain protrusion controls critical shear stress for entrainment in fluvial gravels.

New approaches to field-model data comparison: Numerical modelling of the last glacial cycle in the Welland catchment, England (2018)
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Briant, R., Wainwright, J., & Maddy, D. (2018). New approaches to field-model data comparison: Numerical modelling of the last glacial cycle in the Welland catchment, England. Geomorphology, 323, 106-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2018.09.006

The extent to which deposition within river systems is driven by climate over glacial-interglacial timescales, and the nature of such linkages, is much debated. Answering such questions from the geological record is often limited by a lack of geochro... Read More about New approaches to field-model data comparison: Numerical modelling of the last glacial cycle in the Welland catchment, England.

The adaptation of dunes to changes in river flow (2018)
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Reesink, A., Parsons, D., Ashworth, P., Best, J., Hardy, R., Murphy, B., …Unsworth, C. (2018). The adaptation of dunes to changes in river flow. Earth-Science Reviews, 185, 1065-1087. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.09.002

The dunes that cover the beds of most alluvial channels change in size and shape over time and in space, which in turn affects the flow and sediment-transport dynamics of the river. However, both the precise mechanisms of such adaptation of dunes, an... Read More about The adaptation of dunes to changes in river flow.

What controls submarine channel development and the morphology of deltas entering deep-water fjords? (2018)
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Gales, J., Talling, P., Cartigny, M., Hughes Clarke, J., Lintern, G., Stacey, C., & Clare, M. (2019). What controls submarine channel development and the morphology of deltas entering deep-water fjords?. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 44(2), 535-551. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4515

River deltas and associated turbidity current systems produce some of the largest and most rapid sediment accumulations on our planet. These systems bury globally significant volumes of organic carbon and determine the runout distance of potentially... Read More about What controls submarine channel development and the morphology of deltas entering deep-water fjords?.

Wave ripple development on mixed clay-sand substrates: Effects of clay winnowing and armoring (2018)
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Wu, X., Baas, J. H., Parsons, D. R., Eggenhuisen, J., Amoudry, L., Cartigny, M., …Ruessink, G. (2018). Wave ripple development on mixed clay-sand substrates: Effects of clay winnowing and armoring. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 123(11), 2784-2801. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018jf004681

Based on bedform experiments in a large‐scale flume, we demonstrate that the rate of development of wave ripples on a mixed sand–clay bed under regular waves is significantly lower than on a pure‐sand bed, even at clay fractions as low as 4.2%, and t... Read More about Wave ripple development on mixed clay-sand substrates: Effects of clay winnowing and armoring.

The Importance of Monitoring Interval for Rockfall Magnitude-Frequency Estimation (2019)
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Williams, J., Rosser, N., Hardy, R., & Brain, M. (2020). The Importance of Monitoring Interval for Rockfall Magnitude-Frequency Estimation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 124(12), 2841-2853. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019jf005225

The frequency distribution of rockfall sizes ('magnitude-frequency') is important for erosion and hazard modeling. This typically follows a power law, with few larger rockfalls compared to more numerous small events. Advances in LiDAR hardware and al... Read More about The Importance of Monitoring Interval for Rockfall Magnitude-Frequency Estimation.

Powerful turbidity currents driven by dense basal layers (2018)
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Paull, C. K., Talling, P. J., Maier, K. L., Parsons, D., Xu, J., Caress, D. W., …Cartigny, M. J. (2018). Powerful turbidity currents driven by dense basal layers. Nature Communications, 9(1), Article 4114. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06254-6

Seafloor sediment flows (turbidity currents) are among the volumetrically most important yet least documented sediment transport processes on Earth. A scarcity of direct observations means that basic characteristics, such as whether flows are entirel... Read More about Powerful turbidity currents driven by dense basal layers.

The pre-glacial landscape of Antarctica (2018)
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Sugden, D., & Jamieson, S. (2018). The pre-glacial landscape of Antarctica. Scottish Geographical Journal, 134(3-4), 203-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2018.1535090

The geomorphology of the hidden subglacial landscape of Antarctica is relevant to our understanding of the stability of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and also to that of global interactions between plate tectonics and surface processes. We believe that geo... Read More about The pre-glacial landscape of Antarctica.