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Tectonic and climatic controls on knickpoint retreat rates and landscape response times by Whittaker, Alexander C., Boulton, Sarah J.

“…The rate at which transient knickpoints propagate through a landscape fundamentally controls the rate of geomorphic response to tectonic and climatic…”
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30-year record of Himalaya mass-wasting reveals landscape perturbations by extreme events by Jones, Joshua N., Boulton, Sarah J., Stokes, Martin, Bennett, Georgina L., Whitworth, Michael R. Z.

“…In mountainous environments, quantifying the drivers of mass-wasting is fundamental for understanding landscape evolution and improving hazard management…”
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Which DEM is best for analyzing fluvial landscape development in mountainous terrains? by Boulton, Sarah J., Stokes, Martin

“…Regional studies of fluvial landforms and long-term (Quaternary) landscape development in remote mountain landscapes routinely use satellite-derived DEM data…”
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Quantifying the slip rates, spatial distribution and evolution of active normal faults from geomorphic analysis: Field examples from an oblique-extensional graben, southern Turkey by Boulton, Sarah J., Whittaker, Alexander C.

“…Quantifying the extent to which geomorphic features can be used to extract tectonic signals is a key challenge in the Earth Sciences. Here we analyse the…”
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Rock strength and structural controls on fluvial erodibility: Implications for drainage divide mobility in a collisional mountain belt by Zondervan, Jesse R., Stokes, Martin, Boulton, Sarah J., Telfer, Matt W., Mather, Anne E.

“…•We estimate rock strength, erodibility and drainage divide mobility in the High Atlas Mountains.•The weakest rock-type in the High Atlas is up to two orders…”
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Parametric Study of Tsunamis Generated by Earthquakes and Landslides by Perez del Postigo Prieto, Natalia, Raby, Alison, Whittaker, Colin, Boulton, Sarah J.

“…Tsunami generation and propagation mechanisms need to be clearly understood in order to inform predictive models and improve coastal community preparedness…”
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Structural and geomorphological constraints on the activity of the Sparta Fault (Greece) by Çal, Çağatay, Boulton, Sarah J., Mildon, Zoë

“…The ancient city of Sparti (Greece) suffered extensive damage from an estimated Mw 7.2 earthquake in 464 bce, resulting in c. 20 000 fatalities, but questions…”
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Geomorphic Response to Differential Uplift: River Long Profiles and Knickpoints From Guadalcanal and Makira (Solomon Islands) by Boulton, Sarah J.

“…Knickpoints have long been recognized as key geomorphic features that can be used to reveal the landscape evolution of a region. In particular, mobile…”
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Complex erosional response to uplift and rock strength contrasts in transient river systems crossing an active normal fault revealed by 10Be and 26Al cosmogenic nuclide analyses by Boulton, Sarah J., Rodés, Ángel, Fabel, Derek, Alçiçek, M. Cihat, Whittaker, Alexander C.

“…Understanding the influence of bedrock lithology on the catchment‐averaged erosion rates of normal fault‐bounded catchments and the effect that different…”
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Lithological controls on the timing of strath terrace staircase formation in a collisional mountain belt by Zondervan, Jesse R., Stokes, Martin, Boulton, Sarah J., Telfer, Matt W., Mather, Anne E., Belfoul, Mhamed A.

“…In mountain belts, strath terrace staircases serve as markers for deriving river incision rates and erosional patterns. Distinguishing between terrace patterns…”
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Normal fault growth and linkage in the Gediz (Alaşehir) Graben, Western Turkey, revealed by transient river long‐profiles and slope‐break knickpoints by Kent, Emiko, Boulton, Sarah J., Whittaker, Alexander C., Stewart, Iain S., Cihat Alçiçek, M.

“…The Gediz (Alaşehir) Graben is located in the highly tectonically active and seismogenic region of Western Turkey. The rivers upstream of the normal…”
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The Miocene–Pliocene boundary and the Messinian Salinity Crisis in the easternmost Mediterranean: Insights from the Hatay Graben (Southern Turkey) by Boulton, Sarah J., Smart, Christopher W., Consolaro, Chiara, Snider, Avalon

“…The Hatay Graben is one of three easternmost basins in the Mediterranean that preserve sediments that span the Miocene–Pliocene boundary, including gypsums…”
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Geomorphic and geological constraints on the active normal faulting of the Gediz (Alasehir) Graben, western Turkey by Kent, E, Boulton, Sarah J, Stewart, I. S, Whittaker, A. C, Alcicek, M. C

“…The Gediz (Alasehir) Graben is located in the highly tectonically active region of Western Turkey. Extension owing to regional geodynamic controls has resulted…”
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Constraining the contribution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to Last Interglacial sea level by Barnett, Robert L, Austermann, Jacqueline, Dyer, Blake, Telfer, Matt W, Barlow, Natasha L M, Boulton, Sarah J, Carr, Andrew S, Creel, Roger C

“…Polar temperatures during the Last Interglacial [LIG; ~129 to 116 thousand years (ka)] were warmer than today, making this time period an important testing…”
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Reconciling the stratigraphy and depositional history of the Lycian orogen-top basins, SW Anatolia by Alçiçek, M. Cihat, Mayda, Serdar, ten Veen, Johan H., Boulton, Sarah J., Neubauer, Thomas A., Alçiçek, Hülya, Tesakov, Alexey S., Saraç, Gerçek, Hakyemez, H. Yavuz, Göktaş, Fikret, Murray, Alison M., Titov, Vadim V., Jiménez-Moreno, Gonzalo, Büyükmeriç, Yeşim, Wesselingh, Frank P., Bouchal, Johannes M., Demirel, F. Arzu, Kaya, T. Tanju, Halaçlar, Kazım, Bilgin, Melike, van den Hoek Ostende, Lars W.

“…Terrestrial fossil records from the SW Anatolian basins are crucial both for regional correlations and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. By reassessing…”
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Characteristics of landslide path dependency revealed through multiple resolution landslide inventories in the Nepal Himalaya by Roberts, Storm, Jones, Joshua N., Boulton, Sarah J.

“…Recent research in Umbria, Italy, has shown that landslide susceptibility is controlled by a process called path-dependency, which describes how past…”
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Strontium Isotopic and Micropalaeontological Dating Used to Help Redefine the Stratigraphy of the Neotectonic Hatay Graben, Southern Turkey by BOULTON, SARAH J, ROBERTSON, ALASTAIR H.F

“…In this paper we report for the Hatay Graben, new micropalaeotology, the first strontium dating and new sedimentology. The previous lack of a modern systematic…”
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Complex erosional response to uplift and rock strength contrasts in transient river systems crossing an active normal fault revealed by 10 Be and 26 Al cosmogenic nuclide analyses by Boulton, Sarah J., Rodés, Ángel, Fabel, Derek, Alçiçek, M. Cihat, Whittaker, Alexander C.

“…Abstract Understanding the influence of bedrock lithology on the catchment‐averaged erosion rates of normal fault‐bounded catchments and the effect that…”
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Palaeoenvironmental and tectonic significance of Miocene lacustrine and palustrine carbonates (Aït Kandoula Formation) in the Ouarzazate Foreland Basin, Morocco by Boulton, Sarah J., VanDeVelde, Justin H., Grimes, Stephen T.

“…The Ouarzazate Basin is the southern foreland basin to the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco. The sedimentary fill records a sequence dating from the Eocene to…”
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Quantifying the transient landscape response to active faulting using fluvial geomorphic analysis in the Qianhe Graben on the southwest margin of Ordos, China by Liu, Zhiheng, Han, Ling, Boulton, Sarah J., Wu, Tingting, Guo, Jianhua

“…River morphology has been widely used to record and track the transient landscape response to active faulting. Here we evaluate the landscape response to…”
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