[KNIHA][B] Geology and geomorphology of alluvial and fluvial fans: current progress and research perspectives

D Ventra, LE Clarke - 2018 - lyellcollection.org
Alluvial and fluvial fans are the most widespread depositional landforms bordering the
margins of long-lived highland regions and actively subsiding continental basins, across a …

Geodiversity in the Amazon drainage basin

CME Alsbach… - … Transactions of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Amazon is the largest drainage basin on Earth and contains a wide variety of abiotic
landscape features. In spite of this, the geodiversity in this basin has not yet been objectively …

The distribution and amount of carbon in the largest peatland complex in Amazonia

FC Draper, KH Roucoux, IT Lawson… - Environmental …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Peatlands in Amazonian Peru are known to store large quantities of carbon, but
there is high uncertainty in the spatial extent and total carbon stocks of these ecosystems …

Floodplains of large rivers: Weathering reactors or simple silos?

J Bouchez, J Gaillardet, M Lupker, P Louvat… - Chemical …, 2012 - Elsevier
Large river sediments are mostly derived from tectonically active mountain belts, but then
undergo a series of sedimentation, temporary storage and reworking episodes on their …

[HTML][HTML] Hotspots of geogenic arsenic and manganese contamination in groundwater of the floodplains in lowland Amazonia (South America)

CMC de Meyer, I Wahnfried, JMR Rodriguez… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Arsenic enrichment in groundwater resources in deltas and floodplains of large sediment-
rich rivers is a worldwide natural hazard to human health. High spatial variability of arsenic …

Remote sensing analysis of depositional landforms in alluvial settings: Method development and application to the Taquari megafan, Pantanal (Brazil)

H Zani, ML Assine, MM McGlue - Geomorphology, 2012 - Elsevier
Traditional Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) topographic datasets hold limited
value in the geomorphic analysis of low-relief terrains. To address this shortcoming, this …

Suspended sediment dynamics in the Amazon River of Peru

E Armijos, A Crave, P Vauchel, P Fraizy… - Journal of South …, 2013 - Elsevier
The erosion and transport of sediments allow us to understand many activities of
significance, such as crust evolution, climate change, uplift rates, continental processes, the …

New evidence on the spatial-temporal distribution of superlobes in the Yellow River Delta Complex

L He, C Xue, S Ye, A Amorosi, H Yuan, S Yang… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Unraveling the spatial-temporal distribution of delta superlobes precisely is particularly
important and challenging in the Yellow River Delta Complex (YRDC). Previous research on …

Impacts of Mauritia flexuosa degradation on the carbon stocks of freshwater peatlands in the Pastaza-Marañón river basin of the Peruvian Amazon

RK Bhomia, J van Lent, JMG Rios… - … Adaptation Strategies for …, 2019 - Springer
Tropical peat swamp forests (PSF) are characterized by high quantities of carbon (C) stored
as organic soil deposits due to waterlogged conditions which slows down decomposition …

Late quaternary dynamics in the Madeira river basin, southern Amazonia (Brazil), as revealed by paleomorphological analysis

EH Hayakawa, DF Rossetti - Anais da Academia Brasileira de …, 2015 - SciELO Brasil
Ancient drainage systems are being increasingly documented in the Amazon basin and their
characterization is crucial for reconstructing fluvial evolution in this area. Fluvial …