Applications of Google Earth Engine in fluvial geomorphology for detecting river channel change

RJ Boothroyd, RD Williams, TB Hoey… - Wiley …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cloud‐based computing, access to big geospatial data, and virtualization, whereby users
are freed from computational hardware and data management logistics, could revolutionize …

River deltas and sea-level rise

JH Nienhuis, W Kim, GA Milne, M Quock… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Future sea-level rise poses an existential threat for many river deltas, yet quantifying the
effect of sea-level changes on these coastal landforms remains a challenge. Sea-level …

The degradation and detection of environmental signals in sediment transport systems

C Griffin, RA Duller, KM Straub - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Autogenic processes contribute noise to sediment transport systems that can degrade or
mask externally derived environmental signals and hinder our ability to reconstruct past …

The shaping of erosional landscapes by internal dynamics

JS Scheingross, AB Limaye, SW McCoy… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Erosional landscapes transport sediment downstream, host natural hazards and are
geologically active. While perturbations in external forcing, particularly climate and tectonics …

Himalayan valley-floor widths controlled by tectonically driven exhumation

FJ Clubb, SM Mudd, TF Schildgen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Himalayan rivers transport around a gigaton of sediment annually to ocean basins.
Mountain valleys are an important component of this routing system: storage in these valleys …

Times associated with source-to-sink propagation of environmental signals during landscape transience

S Tofelde, A Bernhardt, L Guerit… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Sediment archives in the terrestrial and marine realm are regularly analyzed to infer
changes in climate, tectonic, or anthropogenic boundary conditions of the past. However …

True substrates: the exceptional resolution and unexceptional preservation of deep time snapshots on bedding surfaces

NS Davies, AP Shillito - Sedimentology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Rock outcrops of the sedimentary–stratigraphic record often reveal bedding planes that can
be considered to be true substrates: preserved surfaces that demonstrably existed at the …

Tectonic accretion controls erosional cyclicity in the Himalaya

SK Mandal, D Scherler, H Wittmann - AGU Advances, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The evolution of Earth's climate over geological timescales is linked to surface erosion via
weathering of silicate minerals and burial of organic carbon. However, methodological …

Earth's earliest forest: fossilized trees and vegetation-induced sedimentary structures from the Middle Devonian (Eifelian) Hangman Sandstone Formation, Somerset …

NS Davies, WJ McMahon, CM Berry - Journal of the Geological …, 2024 - lyellcollection.org
The evolution of trees and forests through the Devonian Period fundamentally changed the
Earth's land biosphere, as well as impacting physical environments and geomorphology by …

Lateral and vertical characteristics of floodplain aggradation cycles in the lower Eocene Willwood Formation, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA

Y Wang, TF Baars, JEA Storms, AW Martinius… - …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Sedimentation on river floodplains is a complex process that involves overbank flooding,
crevasse splaying, and river avulsion. The resulting floodplain stratigraphy often exhibits …