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A Mechanistic Model for Mud Flocculation in Freshwater Rivers

scientific article published in May 2022

A Mechanistic Model of Waterfall Plunge Pool Erosion into Bedrock

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 122 no. 11, November 2017

A model for fire-induced sediment yield by dry ravel in steep landscapes

scholarly article

A physical model for seismic noise generation by turbulent flow in rivers

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 119 no. 10, October 2014

A physical model for seismic noise generation from sediment transport in rivers

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Abrasion regimes in fluvial bedrock incision

scientific article

Abrupt drainage basin reorganization following a Pleistocene river capture

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Accelerated river avulsion frequency on lowland deltas due to sea-level rise

scientific article published on 13 July 2020

Active Ooid Growth Driven By Sediment Transport in a High-Energy Shoal, Little Ambergris Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands

scholarly article

Amphitheater-headed canyons formed by megaflooding at Malad Gorge, Idaho

scientific article published on 16 December 2013

Amplification of downstream flood stage due to damming of fine-grained rivers

scientific article published in 2022

Autogenic Erosional Surfaces in Fluvio-deltaic Stratigraphy from Floods, Avulsions, and Backwater Hydrodynamics

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Barform deposits of the Carolyn Shoemaker formation, Gale crater, Mars

scientific article published on 31 December 2022

Can springs cut canyons into rock?

scholarly article

Canyon formation constraints on the discharge of catastrophic outburst floods of Earth and Mars

scholarly article

Climate-change versus landslide origin of fill terraces in a rapidly eroding bedrock landscape: San Gabriel River, California

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Corrigendum to “New insights into the mechanics of fluvial bedrock erosion through flume experiments and theory” [Geomorphology 244 (2015) 33–55]

scientific article published in September 2018

Cosmogenic 3He production rate in ilmenite and the redistribution of spallation 3He in fine-grained minerals

scholarly article

Debris flow initiation from ravel-filled channel bed failure following wildfire in a bedrock landscape with limited sediment supply

scientific article published in 2021

Deltaic deposits at Aeolis Dorsa: Sedimentary evidence for a standing body of water on the northern plains of Mars

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Dry sediment loading of headwater channels fuels post-wildfire debris flows in bedrock landscapes

scientific article published on 9 December 2019

Early plant organics increased global terrestrial mud deposition through enhanced flocculation

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Effect of Sea‐Level Change on River Avulsions and Stratigraphy for an Experimental Lowland Delta

scientific article published on 03 July 2022

Enhanced runout and erosion by overland flow at low pressure and sub-freezing conditions: Experiments and application to Mars

scholarly article by Susan J. Conway et al published January 2011 in Icarus

Entrainment and suspension of sand and gravel

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Erosional surfaces in the Upper Cretaceous Castlegate Sandstone (Utah, USA): Sequence boundaries or autogenic scour from backwater hydrodynamics?

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Evidence for paleolakes in Erythraea Fossa, Mars: Implications for an ancient hydrological cycle

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Evidence for plunging river plume deposits in the Pahrump Hills member of the Murray formation, Gale crater, Mars

scientific article published on 18 February 2019

Experimental evidence for fluvial bedrock incision by suspended and bedload sediment

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Experimental evidence that ooid size reflects a dynamic equilibrium between rapid precipitation and abrasion rates

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Experimental river delta size set by multiple floods and backwater hydrodynamics

scientific article

Flow resistance, sediment transport, and bedform development in a steep gravel-bedded river flume

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Formation of Box Canyon, Idaho, by megaflood: implications for seepage erosion on Earth and Mars

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Formation of low-gradient bedrock chutes by dry rockfall on planetary surfaces

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Formation of sinuous ridges by inversion of river-channel belts in Utah, USA, with implications for Mars

scientific article published in November 2019

Formation of waterfalls by intermittent burial of active faults

scholarly article

Growth and form of the mound in Gale Crater, Mars: Slope wind enhanced erosion and transport

scholarly article by Edwin S. Kite et al published May 2013 in Geology

Hydraulics of floods upstream of horseshoe canyons and waterfalls

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 120 no. 7, July 2015

Impact of River Channel Lateral Migration on Microbial Communities across a Discontinuous Permafrost Floodplain

scholarly article by Madison M. Douglas et al published 28 September 2021 in Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Incipient sediment motion across the river to debris-flow transition

scientific article

Influence of bed patchiness, slope, grain hiding, and form drag on gravel mobilization in very steep streams

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 118 no. 2, June 2013

Is the critical Shields stress for incipient sediment motion dependent on channel-bed slope?

scholarly article

Landslide velocity, thickness, and rheology from remote sensing: La Clapière landslide, France

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Landslide-dammed paleolake perturbs marine sedimentation and drives genetic change in anadromous fish

scientific article

Long‐Term Storage and Age‐Biased Export of Fluvial Organic Carbon: Field Evidence From West Iceland

scholarly article

Low-gradient, single-threaded rivers prior to greening of the continents

scientific article published on 22 May 2019

Mass balance controls on sediment scour and bedrock erosion in waterfall plunge pools

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Model for the Formation of Single‐Thread Rivers in Barren Landscapes and Implications for Pre‐Silurian and Martian Fluvial Deposits

scientific article published in December 2019

More extensive land loss expected on coastal deltas due to rivers jumping course during sea-level rise

scientific article published on 25 July 2022

New constraints on equatorial temperatures during a Late Neoproterozoic snowball Earth glaciation

scholarly article

New insights into the mechanics of fluvial bedrock erosion through flume experiments and theory

scholarly article

O2 constraints from Paleoproterozoic detrital pyrite and uraninite

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Ooid Cortical Stratigraphy Reveals Common Histories of Individual Co‐occurring Sedimentary Grains

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Orbital and In-Situ Investigation of Periodic Bedrock Ridges in Glen Torridon, Gale Crater, Mars

scientific article published in June 2022

Organic carbon burial by river meandering partially offsets bank erosion carbon fluxes in a discontinuous permafrost floodplain

scientific article published in 2022

Organic carbon burial by river meandering partially offsets bank-erosion carbon fluxes in a discontinuous permafrost floodplain

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Organic sulfur fluxes and geomorphic control of sulfur isotope ratios in rivers

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Origin of giant wave ripples in snowball Earth cap carbonate

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Particle transport mechanics and induced seismic noise in steep flume experiments with accelerometer-embedded tracers

scientific article published in 2018

Physicochemical properties of concentrated Martian surface waters

article published in 2011

Progressive incision of the Channeled Scablands by outburst floods

scientific article published on 12 October 2016

Quantitative bounds on morphodynamics and implications for reading the sedimentary record

scientific article

Rapid formation of a modern bedrock canyon by a single flood event

article by Michael P. Lamb & Mark A. Fonstad published 20 June 2010 in Nature Geoscience

Sediment transport through self-adjusting, bedrock-walled waterfall plunge pools

scholarly article in JGR Earth Surface, vol. 121 no. 5, May 2016

Sedimentary processes of the Bagnold Dunes: Implications for the eolian rock record of Mars.

scientific article published on 7 December 2017

Self-formed bedrock waterfalls

scientific article published in March 2019

Self-formed waterfall plunge pools in homogeneous rock

scholarly article by Joel Scheingross et al published 13 January 2017 in Geophysical Research Letters

Similar curvature-to-width ratios for channels and channel belts: Implications for paleo-hydraulics of fluvial ridges on Mars

scientific article

Similarity of stream width distributions across headwater systems.

scientific article published on 9 February 2018

Spatial Patterns of Deltaic Deposition/Erosion Revealed by Streaklines Extracted From Remotely‐Sensed Suspended Sediment Concentration

scientific article published in 2022

Stratigraphy of Aeolis Dorsa, Mars: Stratigraphic context of the great river deposits

scholarly article by Edwin S. Kite et al published June 2015 in Icarus

Structure of turbulence and sediment stratification in wave‐supported mud layers

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Substrate controls on valley formation by groundwater on Earth and Mars

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The Origin of Carbonate Mud

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The Role of Three-Dimensional Boundary Stresses in Limiting the Occurrence and Size of Experimental Landslides

article by Jeffrey P. Prancevic et al published January 2018 in Journal of geophysical research. Earth surface

The Seismic Signature of Debris Flows: Flow Mechanics and Early Warning at Montecito, California

scholarly article by Voon Hui Lai et al published 12 June 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

The persistence of waterfalls in fractured rock

scholarly article

Time scale bias in erosion rates of glaciated landscapes

scientific article published on 05 October 2016

Timescales of fluvial activity and intermittency in Milna Crater, Mars

Transient Reactivation of a Deep-Seated Landslide by Undrained Loading Captured With Repeat Airborne and Terrestrial Lidar

scholarly article by Adam M. Booth et al published 18 May 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

Universal relation with regime transition for sediment transport in fine-grained rivers

scientific article published on 18 December 2019

Valley formation and methane precipitation rates on Titan

scholarly article

Vegetation and wildfire controls on sediment yield in bedrock landscapes

scientific article published in 2013

WHY DO OOIDS GROW SO SLOWLY?

abstract published in 2016

What sets the size of current ripples?

scientific article

Where rivers jump course

scientific article published on 27 May 2022