A review of geological evidence bearing on proposed Cenozoic land connections between Madagascar and Africa and its relevance to biogeography

JR Ali, SB Hedges - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
For a variety of reasons, Madagascar's rich and highly distinctive faunal assemblage has
long attracted attention. Recurring questions with the associated studies have concerned …

Observational estimates of dynamic topography through space and time

M Hoggard, J Austermann, C Randel… - Mantle convection …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Earth's mantle undergoes convection on million‐year timescales as heat is transferred from
depth to the surface. While this flow has long been linked to the large‐scale horizontal forces …

Continental residual topography extracted from global analysis of crustal structure

SN Stephenson, MJ Hoggard… - … Research: Solid Earth, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Continental topography is dominantly controlled by a combination of crustal thickness and
density variations. Nevertheless, it is clear that some additional topographic component is …

Densely sampled global dynamic topographic observations and their significance

MC Holdt, NJ White, SN Stephenson… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Topography and bathymetry are principally supported by some combination of crustal and
sub‐crustal density variations. However, dynamic topography is generated by vertical …

Assessing the lateral and vertical variability of shelf-margin depositional systems and associated forcing mechanisms: A forward modeling approach

JW Shepherd, V Paumard, T Salles… - Geological …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Understanding the primary drivers of lateral and vertical variability in the stratal architecture
of shelf-margin settings is key to understanding how sediments are partitioned from the shelf …

Observations and models of dynamic topography: Current status and future directions

DR Davies, S Ghelichkhan, MJ Hoggard… - Dynamics of plate …, 2023 - Elsevier
The slow creeping motion of Earth's mantle drives transient changes in surface topography
across a variety of spatial and temporal scales. Recent decades have seen substantial …

Localized Cenozoic erosion on the southern African Plateau: A signal of topographic uplift?

JR Stanley, RM Flowers - Geology, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Constraints on the erosion history of the southern African Plateau have played a key role in
the debate over the plateau's age and origins. Previous low-temperature thermochronology …

A theory of stochastic fluvial landscape evolution

GG Roberts, O Wani - Proceedings of the Royal Society …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Geometries of eroding landscapes contain important information about geologic, climatic,
biotic and geomorphic processes. They are also characterized by variability, which makes …

The significance of ancient buried landscapes as natural geomorphic experiments

BW Conway‐Jones, NJ White - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
There is considerable interest in developing quantitative methods for analyzing present‐day
fluvial landscapes with a view to extracting information about tectonic forcing and drainage …

Feedback between topography and lithosphere–asthenosphere dynamics beneath the Yerer‐Tulu Wellel volcano‐tectonic lineament: Insights from apatite …

S Bowden, ND Gani, T Furman, MR Gani… - Geological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ethiopian topography is dominated by an~ 2‐km high plateau that underwent uplift and
incision after or during the Cenozoic Flood Basalt event in the Early Oligocene; however, the …