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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.

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.

Late Holocene sea-level changes in eastern Québec and potential drivers (2018)
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Barnett, R., Bernatchez, P., Garneau, M., Brain, M., Charman, D., Stephenson, D., …Sanderson, N. (2019). Late Holocene sea-level changes in eastern Québec and potential drivers. Quaternary Science Reviews, 203, 151-169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.10.039

Late Holocene sea-level changes can be reconstructed from salt-marsh sediments with decimetre-scale precision and decadal-scale resolution. These records of relative sea-level changes comprise the net sea-level contributions from mechanisms that act... Read More about Late Holocene sea-level changes in eastern Québec and potential drivers.

Evidence for the long-term sedimentary environment in an Antarctic subglacial lake (2018)
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Smith, A. M., Woodward, J., Ross, N., Bentley, M. J., Hodgson, D. A., Siegert, M. J., & King, E. C. (2018). Evidence for the long-term sedimentary environment in an Antarctic subglacial lake. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 504, 139-151. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2018.10.011

Lakes beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet are of fundamental scientific interest for their ability to contain unique records of ice sheet history and microbial life in their sediments. However, no records of subglacial lake sedimentation have yet been ac... Read More about Evidence for the long-term sedimentary environment in an Antarctic subglacial lake.

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?.

Identifying the Greatest Earthquakes of the Past 2000 Years at the Nehalem River Estuary, Northern Oregon Coast, USA (2020)
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Nelson, A., Hawkes, A., Sawai, Y., Engelhart, S., Witter, R., Grant-Walter, W., …Horton, B. (2020). Identifying the Greatest Earthquakes of the Past 2000 Years at the Nehalem River Estuary, Northern Oregon Coast, USA. Open Quaternary, 6(2), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.5334/oq.70

We infer a history of three great megathrust earthquakes during the past 2000 years at the Nehalem River estuary based on the lateral extent of sharp (≤3 mm) peat-mud stratigraphic contacts in cores and outcrops, coseismic subsidence as interpreted f... Read More about Identifying the Greatest Earthquakes of the Past 2000 Years at the Nehalem River Estuary, Northern Oregon Coast, USA.

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.

Late Holocene paleoseismology of Shuyak Island, Alaska (2018)
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Shennan, I., Brader, M. D., Barlow, N. L., Davies, F. P., Longley, C., & Tunstall, N. (2018). Late Holocene paleoseismology of Shuyak Island, Alaska. Quaternary Science Reviews, 201, 380-395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.10.028

We report stratigraphic evidence of land-level changes along the eastern portion of the Alaska-Aleutian megathrust. Four marshes on Shuyak Island record variable amounts of coseismic deformation during four pre-20th century earthquakes. We combine th... Read More about Late Holocene paleoseismology of Shuyak Island, Alaska.

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.

New flow relaxation mechanism explains scour fields at the end of submarine channels (2019)
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Pohl, F., Eggenhuisen, J., Tilston, M., & Cartigny, M. (2019). New flow relaxation mechanism explains scour fields at the end of submarine channels. Nature Communications, 10(1), Article 4425. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12389-x

Particle-laden gravity flows, called turbidity currents, flow through river-like channels across the ocean floor. These submarine channels funnel sediment, nutrients, pollutants and organic carbon into ocean basins and can extend for over 1000’s of k... Read More about New flow relaxation mechanism explains scour fields at the end of submarine channels.

Late Holocene relative sea levels near Palmer Station, northern Antarctic Peninsula, strongly controlled by late Holocene ice-mass changes (2018)
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Simms, A., Whitehouse, P., Simkins, L., Nield, G., DeWitt, R., & Bentley, M. (2018). Late Holocene relative sea levels near Palmer Station, northern Antarctic Peninsula, strongly controlled by late Holocene ice-mass changes. Quaternary Science Reviews, 199, 49-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.017

Many studies of Holocene relative sea-level (RSL) changes across Antarctica assume that their reconstructions record uplift from glacial isostatic adjustment caused by the demise of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) ice sheets. However, recent analysis... Read More about Late Holocene relative sea levels near Palmer Station, northern Antarctic Peninsula, strongly controlled by late Holocene ice-mass changes.