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The erosion of glaciated mountains: evidence from hypsoclinometry (2019)
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Evans, I. S. (2019). The erosion of glaciated mountains: evidence from hypsoclinometry. Revista de geomorfologie, 21(1), 5-14. https://doi.org/10.21094/rg.2019.006

Mountain glaciation involves the erosion of cirques and troughs, which increase steep slopes but also produce gentle slopes in cirque floors and trough floors. This is expected to increase the variability of slope gradients at related altitudes. Taki... Read More about The erosion of glaciated mountains: evidence from hypsoclinometry.

Subglacial lakes and hydrology across the Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands, West Antarctica (2020)
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Napoleoni, F., Jamieson, S., Ross, N., Bentley, M., Rivera, A., Smith, A., …Vaughan, D. (2020). Subglacial lakes and hydrology across the Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands, West Antarctica. The Cryosphere, 14, 4507-4524. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-4507-2020

Subglacial water plays an important role in ice sheet dynamics and stability. Subglacial lakes are often located at the onset of ice streams and have been hypothesised to enhance ice flow downstream by lubricating the ice– bed interface. The most rec... Read More about Subglacial lakes and hydrology across the Ellsworth Subglacial Highlands, West Antarctica.

Organic Pollutants, Heavy Metals and Toxicity in Oil Spill impacted Salt Marsh Sediment Cores, Staten Island, New York City, USA (2020)
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Vane, C., Kim, A., Moss-Hayes, V., Turner, G., Mills, K., Chenery, S., …Brain, M. (2020). Organic Pollutants, Heavy Metals and Toxicity in Oil Spill impacted Salt Marsh Sediment Cores, Staten Island, New York City, USA. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 151, Article 110721. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.110721

Sediment cores from Staten Island's salt marsh contain multiple historical oil spill events that impact ecological health. Microtox solid phase bioassay indicated moderate to high toxicity. Multiple spikes of TPH (6524 to 9586 mg/kg) and Σ16 PAH (15.... Read More about Organic Pollutants, Heavy Metals and Toxicity in Oil Spill impacted Salt Marsh Sediment Cores, Staten Island, New York City, USA.

Unravelling the controls on the molybdenum isotopic composition of rivers (2020)
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Horan, K., Hilton, R., McCoy-West, A., Selby, D., Tipper, E., Hawley, S., & Burton, K. (2020). Unravelling the controls on the molybdenum isotopic composition of rivers. Geochemical perspectives letters, 13(1), 13-18. https://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.2007

Formation and crystallisation of the Lunar Magma Ocean (LMO) was one of the most incisive events during the early evolution of the Moon. Lunar Magma Ocean solidification concluded with the coeval formation of K-, REE- and P-rich components (KREEP) an... Read More about Unravelling the controls on the molybdenum isotopic composition of rivers.

How did that get there? Understanding sediment transport and accumulation rates in agricultural landscapes using the ESTTraP agent-based model (2019)
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Kabora, T., Stump, D., & Wainwright, J. (2020). How did that get there? Understanding sediment transport and accumulation rates in agricultural landscapes using the ESTTraP agent-based model. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 29, Article 102115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.102115

The 15th–18th century CE site of Engaruka in Tanzania is often described as primarily comprising drystone agricultural terraces, but it is now known that many of these former farming plots are not terraces per se, but are instead sediment traps. Stra... Read More about How did that get there? Understanding sediment transport and accumulation rates in agricultural landscapes using the ESTTraP agent-based model.

Soil organic carbon predictions in Subarctic Greenland by visible–near infrared spectroscopy (2019)
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Ogrič, M., Knadel, M., Kristiansen, S., Peng, Y., De Jonge, L., Adhikari, K., & Greve, M. (2019). Soil organic carbon predictions in Subarctic Greenland by visible–near infrared spectroscopy. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 51(1), 490-505. https://doi.org/10.1080/15230430.2019.1679939

Release of carbon from high-latitude soils to the atmosphere may have significant effects on Earth’s climate. In this contribution, we evaluate visible–near-infrared spectroscopy (vis-NIRS) as a time- and cost-efficient tool for assessing soil organi... Read More about Soil organic carbon predictions in Subarctic Greenland by visible–near infrared spectroscopy.

Mixed sand–mud bedforms produced by transient turbulent flows in the fringe of submarine fans: Indicators of flow transformation (2020)
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Baker, M. L., & Baas, J. H. (2020). Mixed sand–mud bedforms produced by transient turbulent flows in the fringe of submarine fans: Indicators of flow transformation. Sedimentology, 67(5), 2645-2671. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12714

The fringe of fine‐grained deep‐marine systems often exhibits complex sedimentary facies and facies associations, because the presence of clay promotes the development of transient turbulent flows with complex depositional properties. Relatively litt... Read More about Mixed sand–mud bedforms produced by transient turbulent flows in the fringe of submarine fans: Indicators of flow transformation.

Sediment and organic carbon transport and deposition driven by internal tides along Monterey Canyon, offshore California (2019)
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Maier, K. L., Rosenberger, K. J., Paull, C. K., Gwiazda, R., Gales, J., Lorenson, T., …Cartigny, M. J. (2019). Sediment and organic carbon transport and deposition driven by internal tides along Monterey Canyon, offshore California. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 153, Article 103108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2019.103108

Submarine canyons are globally important conduits for sediment and organic carbon transport into the deep sea. Using a novel dataset from Monterey Canyon, offshore central California, that includes an extensive array of water column sampling devices,... Read More about Sediment and organic carbon transport and deposition driven by internal tides along Monterey Canyon, offshore California.

A catchment scale assessment of patterns and controls of historic 2D river planform adjustment (2020)
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Joyce, H. M., Warburton, J., & Hardy, R. J. (2020). A catchment scale assessment of patterns and controls of historic 2D river planform adjustment. Geomorphology, 354, Article 107046. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107046

The supply, transfer and deposition of sediment from channel headwaters to lowland sinks, is a fundamental process governing upland catchment geomorphology, and can begin to be understood by quantifying 2D river planform adjustments over time. This p... Read More about A catchment scale assessment of patterns and controls of historic 2D river planform adjustment.

A reconciled solution of Meltwater Pulse 1A sources using sea-level fingerprinting (2021)
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Lin, Y., Hibbert, F., Whitehouse, P., Woodroffe, S., Purcell, A., Shennan, I., & Bradley, S. (2021). A reconciled solution of Meltwater Pulse 1A sources using sea-level fingerprinting. Nature Communications, 12, Article 2015. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21990-y

The most rapid global sea-level rise event of the last deglaciation, Meltwater Pulse 1A (MWP-1A), occurred ∼14,650 years ago. Considerable uncertainty regarding the sources of meltwater limits understanding of the relationship between MWP-1A and the... Read More about A reconciled solution of Meltwater Pulse 1A sources using sea-level fingerprinting.

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.

Changing Significance of Landslide Hazard and Risk After The 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake (2021)
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Rosser, N., Kincey, M., Oven, K., Densmore, A., Robinson, T., Pujara, D., …Dhital, M. (2021). Changing Significance of Landslide Hazard and Risk After The 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake. Progress in disaster science, 10, Article 100159. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2021.100159

The 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake triggered in excess of 20,000 landslides across 14 districts of Central and Western Nepal. Whilst the instantaneous impact of these landslides was significant, the ongoing effect of the earthquake on changing... Read More about Changing Significance of Landslide Hazard and Risk After The 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake.

Measurements of rhenium isotopic composition in low-abundance samples (2020)
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Dellinger, M., Hilton, R. G., & Nowell, G. M. (2020). Measurements of rhenium isotopic composition in low-abundance samples. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 35(2), 377-387. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9ja00288j

Rhenium (Re) is a trace element whose redox chemistry makes it an ideal candidate to trace a range of geochemical processes. In particular, fractionation of its isotopes 187Re (62.6% abundance) and 185Re (37.4%) may be used to improve our understandi... Read More about Measurements of rhenium isotopic composition in low-abundance samples.

Disaster risk construction in the progressive consolidation of informal settlements: Iquique and Puerto Montt (Chile) case studies (2015)
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Castro, C. P., Ibarra, I., Lukas, M., Ortiz, J., & Sarmiento, J. P. (2015). Disaster risk construction in the progressive consolidation of informal settlements: Iquique and Puerto Montt (Chile) case studies. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 13, 109-127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.05.001

The relationship between informality and vulnerability, common in Latin American communities, is analyzed using data from two medium-sized cities in the Chilean urban system as case studies: Iquique, located in the northern desert zone of the country... Read More about Disaster risk construction in the progressive consolidation of informal settlements: Iquique and Puerto Montt (Chile) case studies.

The Effect of Biofilms on Turbulent Flow over Permeable Beds (2020)
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Kazemifar, F., Blois, G., Aybar, M., Calleja, P., Nerenberg, R., Sinha, S., …Christensen, K. (2021). The Effect of Biofilms on Turbulent Flow over Permeable Beds. Water Resources Research, 57(2), Article e2019WR026032. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019wr026032

Despite an increasingly large body of work advancing our understanding of flow interactions occurring at the interface of a turbulent flow overlying a permeable bed, little is known concerning how such flow may be affected by the presence of biofilms... Read More about The Effect of Biofilms on Turbulent Flow over Permeable Beds.

Direct monitoring reveals initiation of turbidity currents from extremely dilute river plumes (2019)
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Hage, S., Cartigny, M. J., Sumner, E. J., Clare, M. A., Hughes Clarke, J. E., Talling, P. J., …Watts, C. (2019). Direct monitoring reveals initiation of turbidity currents from extremely dilute river plumes. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(20), 11310-11320. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019gl084526

Rivers (on land) and turbidity currents (in the ocean) are the most important sediment transport processes on Earth. Yet, how rivers generate turbidity currents as they enter the coastal ocean remains poorly understood. The current paradigm, based on... Read More about Direct monitoring reveals initiation of turbidity currents from extremely dilute river plumes.

Froude supercritical flow processes and sedimentary structures:New insights from experiments with a wide range of grain sizes (2019)
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Ono, K., Plink‐Björklund, P., Eggenhuisen, J. T., & Cartigny, M. J. (2021). Froude supercritical flow processes and sedimentary structures:New insights from experiments with a wide range of grain sizes. Sedimentology, 68(4), 1328-1357. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12682

Recognition of Froude supercritical flow deposits in environments that range from rivers to the ocean floor has triggered a surge of interest in their flow processes, bedforms and sedimentary structures. Interpreting these supercritical flow deposits... Read More about Froude supercritical flow processes and sedimentary structures:New insights from experiments with a wide range of grain sizes.

Creating an earthquake scenario in China: A case study in Weinan City, Shaanxi province (2022)
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Rodgers, J., Su, G., Qi, W., Milledge, D., Densmore, A., Davis, C., …Guo, C. (2022). Creating an earthquake scenario in China: A case study in Weinan City, Shaanxi province. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101305

In efforts to address government-identified gaps between top-down policies and local-level preparedness approaches, a team from China, the UK and the US undertook a transdisciplinary, participatory project to develop an earthquake scenario for two ad... Read More about Creating an earthquake scenario in China: A case study in Weinan City, Shaanxi province.