The impact of vegetation on meandering rivers

A Ielpi, MGA Lapôtre, MR Gibling… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The Palaeozoic evolution of land plants revolutionized river geomorphology. However, the
relationships between biotic forcing and channel dynamics are still debated and, as such …

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 …

Vegetation enhances curvature-driven dynamics in meandering rivers

A Finotello, A Ielpi, MGA Lapôtre, ED Lazarus… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Stabilization of riverbanks by vegetation has long been considered necessary to sustain
single-thread meandering rivers. However, observation of active meandering in modern …

[HTML][HTML] Morphodynamics of active meandering rivers reviewed in a hierarchy of spatial and temporal scales

J Hooke - Geomorphology, 2023 - Elsevier
Meandering planforms are common on rivers but active, rapidly changing meandering
channels are particularly instructive in indicating meander processes and dynamics and can …

[HTML][HTML] The use of satellite remote sensing for exploring river meander migration

GW Nagel, SE Darby, J Leyland - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Meandering rivers are complex systems that support high rates of biodiversity and the
livelihoods of millions of inhabitants through their ecological services. Meandering rivers are …

Impact of CaSO4-rich soil on Miocene surface preservation and Quaternary sinuous to meandering channel forms in the hyperarid Atacama Desert

B Ritter, JL Diederich-Leicher, SA Binnie, FM Stuart… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Atacama Desert is the driest and oldest desert on Earth. Despite the
abundance evidence for long-term landscape stability, there are subtle signs of localised …

The pace of fluvial meanders on Mars and implications for the western delta deposits of Jezero crater

MGA Lapôtre, A Ielpi - AGU Advances, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although there is little doubt that rivers once flowed on Mars' surface, how sustained and
frequent their flows were remains enigmatic. Understanding the hydrology of early Mars …

Model for the formation of single‐thread rivers in barren landscapes and implications for pre‐Silurian and Martian fluvial deposits

MGA Lapôtre, A Ielpi, MP Lamb… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Flume experiments and field observations show that bank vegetation promotes the formation
of narrow and deep single‐thread channels by strengthening riverbanks. Consistent with …

Quantitative analysis of crevasse-splay systems from modern fluvial settings

MM Rahman, JA Howell… - Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Although crevasse splays are a common constituent of many fluvial and fluvio-deltaic
systems, they remain less well understood than the channel deposits in those settings …

Precambrian aeolian systems: A unique record?

GIE Cosgrove, L Colombera, NP Mountney… - Precambrian …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Precambrian is associated with a set of geologically unique palaeoenvironmental
conditions arising from differences in the Earth's atmosphere, biosphere and geosphere …