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Rate-weakening friction characterizes both slow sliding and catastrophic failure of landslides by Handwerger, Alexander L., Rempel, Alan W., Skarbek, Rob M., Roering, Joshua J., Hilley, George E.

“…Catastrophic landslides cause billions of dollars in damages and claim thousands of lives annually, whereas slow-moving landslides with negligible inertia…”
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Seasonal and Multiyear Changes in CO2 Degassing at Mammoth Mountain Explained by Solid‐Earth‐Driven Fault Valving by Hilley, George E., Lewicki, Jennifer L., Baden, Curtis W.

“…Changes in CO2 emissions from volcanoes may evidence volcanic unrest. We use a multiyear time series of CO2 flux collected at the Horseshoe Lake Tree Kill area…”
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Symmetry, randomness, and process in the structure of branched channel networks by Shelef, Eitan, Hilley, George E.

“…The branched structure of channel networks has a primary impact on the spatial distribution of elevation, water, and life across Earth's surface from the…”
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Earth’s topographic relief potentially limited by an upper bound on channel steepness by Hilley, George E., Porder, Stephen, Aron, Felipe, Baden, Curtis W., Johnstone, Samuel A., Liu, Frances, Sare, Robert, Steelquist, Aaron, Young, Holly H.

“…Rivers limit the maximum elevation of active mountain belts, control the coupling between climate and tectonic processes, and archive the pace and tempo of…”
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framework for predicting global silicate weathering and CO₂ drawdown rates over geologic time-scales by Hilley, George E, Porder, Stephen

“…Global silicate weathering drives long-time-scale fluctuations in atmospheric CO₂. While tectonics, climate, and rock-type influence silicate weathering, it is…”
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Linking chronosequences with the rest of the world: predicting soil phosphorus content in denuding landscapes by Porder, Stephen, Hilley, George E

“…Results from chronosequences from the arctic to the tropics show that phosphorus (P) availability, total P, and the fraction of bedrock-derived P remaining in…”
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Mountain Rivers Reveal the Earthquake Hazard of Geologic Faults in Silicon Valley by Aron, Felipe, Johnstone, Samuel A., Mavrommatis, Andreas, Sare, Robert, Maerten, Frantz, Loveless, John P., Baden, Curtis W., Hilley, George E.

“…The 1989, Mw = 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake resulted in tens of lives lost and cost California almost 3% of its gross domestic product. Despite widespread…”
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Influence of attenuated lithosphere and sediment loading on flexure of the deep-water Magallanes retroarc foreland basin, Southern Andes by Fosdick, Julie C., Graham, Stephan A., Hilley, George E.

“…Flexural subsidence in foreland basins is controlled by applied loads—such as topography, water/sediment, and subcrustal forces—and the mechanical properties…”
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Major ion chemistry of the Yarlung Tsangpo–Brahmaputra river: Chemical weathering, erosion, and CO2 consumption in the southern Tibetan plateau and eastern syntaxis of the Himalaya by Hren, Michael T., Chamberlain, C. Page, Hilley, George E., Blisniuk, Peter M., Bookhagen, Bodo

“…The Yarlung Tsangpo-Brahmaputra river drains a large portion of the Himalaya and southern Tibetan plateau, including the eastern Himalayan syntaxis, one of the…”
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Dynamics of Slow-Moving Landslides from Permanent Scatterer Analysis by Hilley, George E., Bürgmann, Roland, Ferretti, Alessandro, Novali, Fabrizio, Rocca, Fabio

“…High-resolution interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) permanent scatterer data allow us to resolve the rates and variations in the rates of…”
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Climatic control of denudation in the deglaciated landscape of the Washington Cascades by Moon, Seulgi, Page Chamberlain, C., Blisniuk, Kimberly, Levine, Nathaniel, Rood, Dylan H., Hilley, George E.

“…Since the Last Glacial Maximum, the extent of glaciers in many mountainous regions has declined, and erosion driven by glacial processes has been supplanted by…”
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Dynamics of CO2 fluxes and concentrations during a shallow subsurface CO2 release by Lewicki, Jennifer L., Hilley, George E., Dobeck, Laura, Spangler, Lee

“…A field facility located in Bozeman, Montana provides the opportunity to test methods to detect, locate, and quantify potential CO 2 leakage from geologic…”
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Depth and character of rock weathering across a basaltic-hosted climosequence on Hawai'i by Goodfellow, Bradley W., Chadwick, Oliver A., Hilley, George E.

“…Using field observations and geochemical and digital terrain analyses, we describe the structure and thickness of the regolith across a climosequence on the…”
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Eddy covariance mapping and quantification of surface CO2 leakage fluxes by Lewicki, Jennifer L., Hilley, George E.

“…We present eddy covariance measurements of net CO2 flux (Fc) made during a controlled release of CO2 (0.3 t d−1 from 9 July to 7 August 2008) from a horizontal…”
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Uplift, Erosion, and Phosphorus Limitation in Terrestrial Ecosystems by Porder, Stephen, Vitousek, Peter M, Chadwick, Oliver A, Chamberlain, C. Page, Hilley, George E

“…Primary productivity on old, weathered soils often is assumed to be limited by phosphorus (P), especially in the lowland tropics where climatic conditions…”
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Influence of lithosphere viscosity structure on estimates of fault slip rate in the Mojave region of the San Andreas fault system by Johnson, Kaj M., Hilley, George E., Bürgmann, Roland

“…It is well known that slip rate estimates from geodetic data are nonunique because they depend on model assumptions and parameters that are often not known a…”
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Bridging earthquakes and mountain building in the Santa Cruz Mountains, CA by Baden, Curtis W, Shuster, David L, Aron, Felipe, Fosdick, Julie C, Bürgmann, Roland, Hilley, George E

“…Relative crustal motions along active faults generate earthquakes, and repeated earthquake cycles build mountain ranges over millions of years. However, the…”
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The impact of bedrock meander cutoffs on 50 kyr scale incision rates, San Juan River, Utah by Steelquist, Aaron T, Seixas, Gustav B, Gillam, Mary L, Saha, Sourav, Moon, Seulgi, Hilley, George E

“…Incision rates of major rivers may reflect the effects of drainage reorganization, hillslope processes, tectonic uplift, climate, the properties of rocks into…”
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High spatio-temporal resolution observations of crater lake temperatures at Kawah Ijen volcano, East Java, Indonesia by Lewicki, Jennifer L., Caudron, Corentin, van Hinsberg, Vincent J., Hilley, George E.

“…The crater lake of Kawah Ijen volcano, East Java, Indonesia, has displayed large and rapid changes in temperature at point locations during periods of unrest,…”
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Impact of flow routing on catchment area calculations, slope estimates, and numerical simulations of landscape development by Shelef, Eitan, Hilley, George E.

“…Flow routing across real or modeled topography determines the modeled discharge and wetness index and thus plays a central role in predicting surface lowering…”
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