The Miocene: The future of the past

M Steinthorsdottir, HK Coxall… - Paleoceanography …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Miocene epoch (23.03–5.33 Ma) was a time interval of global warmth, relative
to today. Continental configurations and mountain topography transitioned toward modern …

The Mississippi River source-to-sink system: Perspectives on tectonic, climatic, and anthropogenic influences, Miocene to Anthropocene

SJ Bentley Sr, MD Blum, J Maloney, L Pond… - Earth-Science …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Mississippi River fluvial–marine sediment-dispersal system (MRS) has become
the focus of renewed research during the past decade, driven by the recognition that the …

P and S wave tomography of the mantle beneath the United States

B Schmandt, FC Lin - Geophysical Research Letters, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Mantle seismic structure beneath the United States spanning from the active western plate
margin to the passive eastern margin was imaged with teleseismic P and S wave traveltime …

Lithologic controls on landscape dynamics and aquatic species evolution in post-orogenic mountains

SF Gallen - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Determining factors that modify Earth's topography is essential for understanding continental
mass and nutrient fluxes, and the evolution and diversity of species. Contrary to the …

Neogene rejuvenation of central Appalachian topography: Evidence for differential rock uplift from stream profiles and erosion rates

SR Miller, PB Sak, E Kirby, PR Bierman - Earth and Planetary Science …, 2013‏ - Elsevier
The persistence of topography within ancient orogens remains one of the outstanding
questions in landscape evolution. In the eastern North American Appalachians, this question …

River profile response to normal fault growth and linkage: An example from the Hellenic forearc of south-central Crete, Greece

SF Gallen, KW Wegmann - Earth Surface Dynamics, 2017‏ - esurf.copernicus.org
Topography is a reflection of the tectonic and geodynamic processes that act to uplift the
Earth's surface and the erosional processes that work to return it to base level. Numerous …

Deep impact: Effects of mountaintop mining on surface topography, bedrock structure, and downstream waters

MRV Ross, BL McGlynn… - Environmental science & …, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
Land use impacts are commonly quantified and compared using 2D maps, limiting the scale
of their reported impacts to surface area estimates. Yet, nearly all land use involves …

[HTML][HTML] Improving lithological map** by SVM classification of spectral and morphological features: The discovery of a new chromite body in the Mawat ophiolite …

AA Othman, R Gloaguen - Remote Sensing, 2014‏ - mdpi.com
The mineral ore potential of many mountainous regions of the world, like the Kurdistan
region of Iraq, remains unexplored. For logistical and sometimes political reasons, these …

DEM-based analysis of interactions between tectonics and landscapes in the Ore Mountains and Eger Rift (East Germany and NW Czech Republic)

L Andreani, KP Stanek, R Gloaguen, O Krentz… - Remote Sensing, 2014‏ - mdpi.com
Tectonics modify the base-level of rivers and result in the progressive erosion of landscapes.
We propose here a new method to classify landscapes according to their erosional stages …

Lithologic and tectonic controls on bedrock channel form at the northwest Himalayan front

GH Allen, JB Barnes, TM Pavelsky… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
Recognition that channel form reflects a river's ability to erode rock and transport material
has spawned stream‐power models that estimate incision patterns by approximating energy …