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Category Archives: paper reviews
Anne’s picks of the June literature: Watershed Hydrology
How long does it *really* take water to move through a watershed? Continue reading
Anne’s picks of the June literature: Humans as Agents of Hydrologic Change
How large reservoirs affect our measurements of global sea level rise…and how the world’s biggest river basins are going to respond to mid-century climate change Continue reading
How do we know Gabon’s ‘multicellular’ fossils are 2.1 billion years old?
The fossil record prior to 550 million years ago is so patchy that every discovery is going to cause some fanfare. That is certainly case with these odd looking things, which have been proclaimed in Nature as the oldest mulitcellular … Continue reading
Creeping fault segments are showing their age
Do faults get weaker as they get older?
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The intimate coupling of hydrologic and geomorphic evolution of basalt landscapes
In a new paper, I show that, on basalts, flowpaths, hydographs, and landscapes coevolve over a million years or more.
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