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 …

The role of discharge variability in the formation and preservation of alluvial sediment bodies

CR Fielding, J Alexander, JP Allen - Sedimentary Geology, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Extant, planform-based facies models for alluvial deposits are not fully fit for purpose,
because they over-emphasise plan form whereas there is little in the alluvial rock record that …

[HTML][HTML] Resolving MISS conceptions and misconceptions: a geological approach to sedimentary surface textures generated by microbial and abiotic processes

NS Davies, AG Liu, MR Gibling, RF Miller - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The rock record contains a rich variety of sedimentary surface textures on siliciclastic
sandstone, siltstone and mudstone bedding planes. In recent years, an increasing number …

The environmental implications of upper Paleozoic plant-fossil assemblages with mixtures of wetland and drought-tolerant taxa in tropical Pangea

AR Bashforth, WA DiMichele, CF Eble, HJ Falcon-Lang… - Geobios, 2021‏ - Elsevier
We evaluate the influences of elevation and climate on the spatio-temporal distribution of
wetland and dryland biomes during the Pennsylvanian and early Permian in tropical …

Planform architecture, stratigraphic signature and morphodynamics of an exhumed Jurassic meander plain (Scalby Formation, Yorkshire, UK)

A Ielpi, M Ghinassi - Sedimentology, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Modern fluvial meander plains exhibit complex planform transformations in response to
meander‐bend expansion, downstream migration and rotation. These transformations exert …

Uplands, lowlands, and climate: Taphonomic megabiases and the apparent rise of a xeromorphic, drought-tolerant flora during the Pennsylvanian-Permian transition

WA DiMichele, AR Bashforth, HJ Falcon-Lang… - Palaeogeography …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Mississippian and Pennsylvanian have been referred to as the Coal Age
due to enormous paleotropical peat accumulations (coal beds). Numerous fossil floras have …

Coal-bearing fluvial cycles of the late Paleozoic tropics; astronomical control on sediment supply constrained by high-precision radioisotopic ages, Upper Silesian …

S Opluštil, J Laurin, L Hýlová, J Jirásek, M Schmitz… - Earth-Science …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The late Paleozoic sedimentary record is well known for its mixed marine–terrestrial coal-
bearing sedimentary sequences, traditionally called cyclothems, and their hypothetical …

Considering river structure and stability in the light of evolution: feedbacks between riparian vegetation and hydrogeomorphology

D Corenblit, NS Davies, J Steiger… - Earth Surface …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
River ecological functioning can be conceptualized according to a four‐dimensional
framework, based on the responses of aquatic and riparian communities to …

Palaeozoic co-evolution of rivers and vegetation: a synthesis of current knowledge

MR Gibling, NS Davies, HJ Falcon-Lang… - Proceedings of the …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
As vegetation evolved during the Palaeozoic Era, terrestrial landscapes were substantially
transformed, especially during the∼ 120 million year interval from the Devonian through the …

Formation and dynamics of vegetated fluvial landforms follow the biogeomorphological succession model in a channelized river

D Corenblit, F Vautier, E González… - … Surface Processes and …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Feedback between hydrogeomorphological processes and riparian plants drives landscape
dynamics and vegetation succession in river corridors. We describe the consequences of …