Growing topography due to contrasting rock types in a tectonically dead landscape [PDF]
Earth Surface Dynamics, 2021 Many mountain ranges survive in a phase of erosional decay for millions of years following the cessation of tectonic activity. Landscape dynamics in these post-orogenic settings have long puzzled geologists due to the expectation that topographic relief ...
D. Peifer +5 more
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Transitional rock glaciers at sea level in northern Norway [PDF]
Earth Surface Dynamics, 2022 Rock glaciers are geomorphological expressions of permafrost. Close to sea level in northernmost Norway, in the subarctic Nordkinn peninsula, we have observed several rock glaciers that appear to be active now or were active in the recent past ...
K. S. Lilleøren +5 more
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Entrainment and deposition of boulders in a gravel bed river [PDF]
Earth Surface Dynamics, 2023 Bedload transport, entrainment of coarse sediment by a river, is inherently a stochastic and intermittent process whose monitoring remains challenging. Here, we propose a new method to characterize bedload transport in the field. Using an uncrewed aerial
P. Allemand +3 more
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Inertial drag and lift forces for coarse grains on rough alluvial beds measured using in-grain accelerometers [PDF]
Earth Surface Dynamics, 2020 Quantifying the force regime that controls the movement of a single grain during fluvial transport has historically proven to be difficult. Inertial micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) sensors (sensor assemblies that mainly comprise micro ...
G. Maniatis +4 more
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Simulating the effect of subsurface drainage on the thermal regime and ground ice in blocky terrain in Norway [PDF]
Earth Surface Dynamics, 2023 Ground temperatures in coarse, blocky deposits such as mountain blockfields and rock glaciers have long been observed to be lower in comparison with other (sub)surface material.
C. Renette +10 more
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A 6-year lidar survey reveals enhanced rockwall retreat and modified rockfall magnitudes/frequencies in deglaciating cirques [PDF]
Earth Surface Dynamics, 2020 Cirque erosion contributes significantly to mountain denudation and is a key element of glaciated mountain topography. Despite long-standing efforts, rates of rockwall retreat and the proportional contributions of low-, mid- and high-magnitude rockfalls ...
I. Hartmeyer +8 more
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Implications of the ongoing rock uplift in NW Himalayan interiors [PDF]
Earth Surface Dynamics, 2021 The Lesser Himalaya exposed in the Kishtwar Window (KW) of the Kashmir Himalaya exhibits rapid rock uplift and exhumation (∼3 mm yr−1) at least since the late Miocene. However, it has remained unclear if it is still actively deforming.
S. Dey +5 more
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Permafrost in monitored unstable rock slopes in Norway – new insights from temperature and surface velocity measurements, geophysical surveying, and ground temperature modelling [PDF]
Earth Surface Dynamics, 2022 The warming and subsequent degradation of mountain permafrost within alpine areas represent an important process influencing the stability of steep slopes and rock faces.
B. Etzelmüller +24 more
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Experimental migration of knickpoints: influence of style of base-level fall and bed lithology [PDF]
Earth Surface Dynamics, 2016 Knickpoints are fascinating and common geomorphic features whose dynamics influence the development of landscapes and source-to-sink systems – in particular the upstream propagation of erosion.
J.-L. Grimaud, C. Paola, V. Voller
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Model predictions of long-lived storage of organic carbon in river deposits [PDF]
Earth Surface Dynamics, 2017 The mass of carbon stored as organic matter in terrestrial systems is sufficiently large to play an important role in the global biogeochemical cycling of CO2 and O2.
M. A. Torres +5 more
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