Microplastics and nanoplastics in the environment: Macroscopic transport and effects on creatures

D Huang, J Tao, M Cheng, R Deng, S Chen… - Journal of hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Industrial progress has brought us an important polymer material, ie plastic. Because of
mass production and use, and improper management and disposal, plastic pollution has …

Dispersion, accumulation, and the ultimate fate of microplastics in deep-marine environments: a review and future directions

IA Kane, MA Clare - Frontiers in earth science, 2019 - frontiersin.org
An estimated 8.3 billion tons of non-biodegradable plastic has been produced over the last
65 years. Much of this is not recycled and is disposed into the natural environment, has a …

Connectivity as an emergent property of geomorphic systems

E Wohl, G Brierley, D Cadol… - Earth Surface …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Connectivity describes the efficiency of material transfer between geomorphic system
components such as hillslopes and rivers or longitudinal segments within a river network …

Sediment delivery to sustain the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta under climate change and anthropogenic impacts

JL Raff, SL Goodbred Jr, JL Pickering… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The principal nature-based solution for offsetting relative sea-level rise in the Ganges-
Brahmaputra delta is the unabated delivery, dispersal, and deposition of the rivers'~ 1 billion …

Terrestrial sources as the primary delivery mechanism of mercury to the oceans across the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (Early Jurassic)

TR Them II, CH Jagoe, AH Caruthers, BC Gill… - Earth and Planetary …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study evaluates the utility of sedimentary mercury (Hg) contents as a proxy for
fingerprinting ancient massive volcanism, which is often associated with biogeochemical …

Geomorphic and sedimentary effects of modern climate change: current and anticipated future conditions in the western United States

AE East, JB Sankey - Reviews of Geophysics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hydroclimatic changes associated with global warming over the past 50 years have been
documented widely, but physical landscape responses are poorly understood thus far …

Fluvial sediment transfer in the Changjiang (Yangtze) river-estuary depositional system

Z Dai, X Mei, SE Darby, Y Lou, W Li - Journal of Hydrology, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of the transfer of sediment through river systems is essential for
understanding the physical, chemical and biological processes on the Earth's surface. A …

Sediment generation and sediment routing systems from a quantitative provenance analysis perspective: Review, application and future development

L Caracciolo - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Sediment Routing Systems (SRS) and Sediment Generation (SG) are two branches
of sedimentary geology which are complementary, although their full integration remains …

Drivers and trajectories of land cover change in East Africa: Human and environmental interactions from 6000 years ago to present

R Marchant, S Richer, O Boles, C Capitani… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
East African landscapes today are the result of the cumulative effects of climate and land-
use change over millennial timescales. In this review, we compile archaeological and …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrological and associated biogeochemical consequences of rapid global warming during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum

MJ Carmichael, GN Inglis, MPS Badger… - Global and Planetary …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) hyperthermal,~ 56 million years
ago (Ma), is the most dramatic example of abrupt Cenozoic global warming. During the …