Search Results - "HAFF, PETER K"
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A probabilistic description of the bed load sediment flux: 1. Theory
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (01-09-2012)“…We provide a probabilistic definition of the bed load sediment flux. In treating particle positions and motions as stochastic quantities, a flux form of the…”
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From divots to swales: Hillslope sediment transport across divers length scales
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (01-09-2010)“…In soil‐mantled steeplands, soil motions associated with creep, ravel, rain splash, soil slips, tree throw, and rodent activity are patchy and intermittent and…”
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The proposed Anthropocene Epoch/Series is underpinned by an extensive array of mid‐20th century stratigraphic event signals
Published in Journal of quaternary science (01-10-2022)“…ABSTRACT The extensive array of mid‐20th century stratigraphic event signals associated with the ‘Great Acceleration’ enables precise and unambiguous…”
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The Anthropocene: a conspicuous stratigraphical signal of anthropogenic changes in production and consumption across the biosphere
Published in Earth's future (01-03-2016)“…Biospheric relationships between production and consumption of biomass have been resilient to changes in the Earth system over billions of years. This…”
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Regolith thickness instability and the formation of tors in arid environments
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface (01-09-2006)“…We present model results suggesting that a physical erosion–bedrock weathering feedback is responsible for the development of isolated bedrock knobs…”
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When did the Anthropocene begin? A mid-twentieth century boundary level is stratigraphically optimal
Published in Quaternary international (05-10-2015)“…We evaluate the boundary of the Anthropocene geological time interval as an epoch, since it is useful to have a consistent temporal definition for this…”
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Statistical description of slope-dependent soil transport and the diffusion-like coefficient
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface (01-09-2009)“…For hillslopes undergoing “diffusive” soil transport, it is often assumed that the soil flux is proportional to the local land‐surface gradient, where the…”
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When Agendas Collide: Human Welfare and Biological Conservation
Published in Conservation biology (01-02-2007)“…Conservation should benefit ecosystems, nonhuman organisms, and current and future human beings. Nevertheless, tension among these goals engenders potential…”
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Rain splash of soil grains as a stochastic advection-dispersion process, with implications for desert plant-soil interactions and land-surface evolution
Published in Journal of Geophysical Research - Earth Surface (01-09-2009)“…We formulate soil grain transport by rain splash as a stochastic advection‐dispersion process. By taking into account the intermittency of grain motions…”
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Simulation of Eolian Saltation
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (12-08-1988)“…Saltation is important in the transport of sand-sized granular material by wind and in the ejection of dust from the bed both on Earth and on Mars. The…”
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Mechanics of Wind Ripple Stratigraphy
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (06-03-1992)“…Stratigraphic patterns preserved under translating surface undulations or ripples in a depositional eolian environment are computed on a grain by grain basis…”
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Epochs, events and episodes: Marking the geological impact of humans
Published in Earth-science reviews (01-11-2022)“…Event stratigraphy is used to help characterise the Anthropocene as a chronostratigraphic concept, based on analogous deep-time events, for which we provide a…”
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Response to Merritts et al. (2023): The Anthropocene is complex. Defining it is not
Published in Earth-science reviews (01-03-2023)“…Merritts et al. (2023) misrepresent Paul Crutzen’s Anthropocene concept as encompassing all significant anthropogenic impacts, extending back many millennia…”
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The proposed Anthropocene Epoch/Series is underpinned by an extensive array of mid‐20 th century stratigraphic event signals
Published in Journal of quaternary science (01-10-2022)“…ABSTRACT The extensive array of mid‐20 th century stratigraphic event signals associated with the ‘Great Acceleration’ enables precise and unambiguous…”
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Scaling Rivers, blood and transportation networks
Published in Nature (London) (09-11-2000)“…The long-standing problem of explaining metabolic scaling in animals, whereby whole-animal metabolic rate B is observed to increase as a function of body mass…”
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Scaling Rivers, blood and transportation networks
Published in Nature (London) (09-11-2000)“…The search for a theory to explain why the metabolic rate of mammals is proportional to the 3/4-power of body mass (Kleiber's law) has recently focused on the…”
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A two-stage mechanism for escape of Na and K from Io
Published in Nature (London) (25-08-1983)“…A two-stage process is presented to identify Io as the source of Na and K ions in the Io plasma torus. The Voyager I IRIS experiment recorded an SO2 abundance…”
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Rivers, blood and transportation networks
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