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 …

Downstream-migrating fluvial point bars in the rock record

M Ghinassi, A Ielpi, M Aldinucci, M Fustic - Sedimentary Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
Classical models developed for ancient fluvial point bars are based on the assumption that
meander bends invariably increase their radius as meander-bend apices migrate in a …

Sedimentological and geochemical perspectives on a marginal lake environment recorded in the Hartmann's Valley and Karasburg members of the Murray formation …

S Gwizd, C Fedo, J Grotzinger… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This study utilizes instruments from the Curiosity rover payload to develop an integrated
paleoenvironmental and compositional reconstruction for the 65‐m thick interval of …

The sedimentology of an ephemeral fluvial–aeolian succession

CL Priddy, SM Clarke - Sedimentology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ephemeral fluvial systems are commonly associated with arid to semi‐arid climates.
Although their complex sedimentology and depositional settings have been described in …

Model for the formation of single‐thread rivers in barren landscapes and implications for pre‐Silurian and Martian fluvial deposits

MGA Lapôtre, A Ielpi, MP Lamb… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Flume experiments and field observations show that bank vegetation promotes the formation
of narrow and deep single‐thread channels by strengthening riverbanks. Consistent with …

Morphometric convergence between Proterozoic and post-vegetation rivers

A Ielpi, RH Rainbird, D Ventra, M Ghinassi - Nature Communications, 2017 - nature.com
Proterozoic rivers flowed through barren landscapes, and lacked interactions with
macroscopic organisms. It is widely held that, in the absence of vegetation, fluvial systems …

Tectonic and environmental controls on Palaeozoic fluvial environments: reassessing the impacts of early land plants on sedimentation

MGM Santos, NP Mountney… - Journal of the Geological …, 2017 - lyellcollection.org
The apparent increase in occurrence of meandering fluvial channel systems in the Middle
Palaeozoic has long been related to the effects of land-plant colonization. However …

Planview style and palaeodrainage of Torridonian channel belts: Applecross formation, Stoer Peninsula, Scotland

A Ielpi, M Ghinassi - Sedimentary Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
The sedimentary products of forty-three Neoproterozoic fluvial-channel belts are superbly
exposed along the seaboard of Stoer Peninsula, Scotland, UK. The deposits belong to the …

A depositional model for meandering rivers without land plants

M Hasson, MC Marvin, A Gunn, A Ielpi… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The recognition of meandering rivers in Earth's prevegetation stratigraphic record is
hindered by an absence of depositional models specifically tailored to unvegetated single …

Stratal architecture and morphodynamics of downstream-migrating fluvial point bars (Jurassic Scalby Formation, UK)

M Ghinassi, A Ielpi - Journal of Sedimentary Research, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Assessments of depositional architecture and paleodrainage in planform are increasingly
recognized as critical for the reconstruction of ancient fluvial morphodynamics; however …