Recent

The following lists the recent preprints posted on EGUsphere with ESurf-related topics as well as final revised papers published recently in ESurf.

05 Aug 2026

How ice apron loss and permafrost degradation promoted the Platteikogel rock slope failure: a thermo-mechanical reconstruction

Felix Pfluger, Samuel Weber, Natalie Barbosa, Florentin Hofmeister, Johannes Leinauer, Peter Wegmann, and Michael Krautblatter

Earth Surf. Dynam., 14, 601–634, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-601-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-601-2026, 2026

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30 Jul 2026

A physics-based morphometric model to explain the emergence of landslide rupture geometry and to identify hillslope transience

Philippe Steer, Lucas Pelascini, and Laurent Longuevergne

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-4142,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-4142, 2026

Preprint under review for ESurf (discussion: open, 0 comments)

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29 Jul 2026

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Valley longitudinal profiles record the fluvial landscape evolution and geological structure of the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, East Antarctica

Guy J. G. Paxman, Fiona J. Clubb, Stewart S. R. Jamieson, and Alexander L. Densmore

Earth Surf. Dynam., 14, 575–599, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-575-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-575-2026, 2026

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27 Jul 2026

Mapping permafrost distribution and thaw depths in the Inner Tien Shan: A CryoGrid-based modeling approach integrating geophysical data

Tamara Mathys, Sergey S. Marchenko, Sebastian Westermann, Luke Gregor, Léo C. P. Martin, Murataly Duishonakunov, Christian Hauck, Mohammad Farzamian, Teddi Herring, Christin Hilbich, Ruslan Kenzhebaev, Mukhammad Esenaman uulu, Timur Musaev, Zhoodarbeshim Bektursunov, Ryskul Usubaliev, Isabella Brining, Tomas Saks, and Martin Hoelzle

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2756,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2756, 2026

Preprint under review for ESurf (discussion: open, 1 comment)

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17 Jul 2026

The geomorphology of burrowing bioturbation in the Central French Pyrenees

Marijke Van Cappellen, Sofie Annys, Marta Loreggian, Brice Dupin, and Amaury Frankl

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2910,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2910, 2026

Preprint under review for ESurf (discussion: open, 0 comments)

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15 Jul 2026

Sediment storage and routing in bedrock canyons

Chloe B. A. Ross, Julia C. Carr, Jeff E. Larimer, Max Hurson, Leonard S. Sklar, Morgan Wright, Nick Viner, and Jeremy G. Venditti

Earth Surf. Dynam., 14, 553–573, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-553-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-553-2026, 2026

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14 Jul 2026

Climatic, tectonic and landslide-dam signals preserved in alluvial terraces of the Naryn Basin, Kyrgyzstan

Andreas Ruby, Taylor F. Schildgen, Fergus McNab, Andrew D. Wickert, Apolline Mariotti, Hella Wittmann, Bolot Moldobekov, Thomas Kolb, and Markus Fuchs

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3489,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3489, 2026

Preprint under review for ESurf (discussion: open, 0 comments)

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14 Jul 2026

ImageGrains 2.0: Improved precision and generalization for grain segmentation

David Mair, Guillaume Witz, Ariel Do Prado, Philippos Garefalakis, Amanda Wild, Fanny Ville, Bennet Schuster, Michael Horn, Jürgen Österle, Stefano C. Fabbri, Camille Litty, Stefan Achleitner, Sebastian Leistner, Clemens Hiller, and Fritz Schlunegger

Earth Surf. Dynam., 14, 527–551, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-527-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-527-2026, 2026

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10 Jul 2026

Do the same river engineering works cause the same morphological adjustments? Context matters!

Gabrielle Seignemartin, Brice Mourier, Jérémie Riquier, and Hervé Piégay

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3582,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3582, 2026

Preprint under review for ESurf (discussion: open, 1 comment)

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09 Jul 2026

Geological controls on the formation and evolution of shoreface-connected ridges: new insights from the Stroombank sand ridge (Belgian coast)

Víctor Cartelle, Soetkin Vervust, Thomas Mestdagh, Wout Van Wesemael, Yağız Arda Çiçek, Christian Schwarz, Tine Missiaen, Tim Kinnaird, and Ruth Plets

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2791,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2791, 2026

Preprint under review for ESurf (discussion: open, 1 comment)

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09 Jul 2026

Prediction of precipitation-induced landslides and sediment discharge at the basin scale using machine learning

Riho Kido, Takuya Inoue, and Kazuki Yamanoi

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2689,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2689, 2026

Preprint under review for ESurf (discussion: open, 0 comments)

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07 Jul 2026

Evolution of seepage driven networks in the lab

Céleste Romon, Eric Lajeunesse, and François Métivier

Earth Surf. Dynam., 14, 517–525, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-517-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-517-2026, 2026

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06 Jul 2026

Characterizing Experimental Alluvial Fan Dynamics Using Dense Optical Flow and DEMs of Difference

Nastaran Nematollahi, Brett Eaton, and Sarah Davidson

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1967,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1967, 2026

Preprint under review for ESurf (discussion: open, 2 comments)

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29 Jun 2026

Discrete differential geometry of fluvial landscapes

Nathaniel Klema, Leif Karlstrom, and Joshua Roering

Earth Surf. Dynam., 14, 493–515, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-493-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-493-2026, 2026

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24 Jun 2026

Grain roughness controls on velocity and bed stress fields around a fully protruding obstacle in supercritical flow

Angel Monsalve and Oscar Link

Earth Surf. Dynam., 14, 469–491, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-469-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-469-2026, 2026

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15 Jun 2026

Mud volcano dynamics in Azerbaijan: the overlooked role of creeping mud flows in landscape evolution

Caroline Fenske, Petr Brož, and Adriano Mazzini

Earth Surf. Dynam., 14, 433–442, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-433-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-433-2026, 2026

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15 Jun 2026

Systematic valley floor extraction for characterizing valley width distribution in mountain landscapes : comparison between hydraulic and geometrical approaches

Aude Lurin, Philippe Steer, Fiona Clubb, and Boris Gailleton

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3145,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-3145, 2026

Preprint under review for ESurf (discussion: open, 0 comments)

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10 Jun 2026

How hidden variables limit the performance of shallow landslide susceptibility models

Tobias Halter, Manfred Stähli, Alexander Bast, Peter Lehmann, and Jordan Aaron

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2858,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2858, 2026

Preprint under review for ESurf (discussion: final response, 2 comments)

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10 Jun 2026

From XRD signal to erosion rate maps

Fien De Doncker, Frédéric Herman, Bruno Belotti, and Thierry Adatte

Earth Surf. Dynam., 14, 443–467, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-443-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-443-2026, 2026

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02 Jun 2026

Parameter estimation of river incision models of soft sedimentary rocks – a case study on the Kamikita Coastal Plain, northeast Japan

Shizuka Takai, Tomoji Sanga, Taro Shimada, and Seiji Takeda

Earth Surf. Dynam., 14, 417–432, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-417-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-417-2026, 2026

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26 May 2026

TopoToolbox 3, a laboratory for quantitative geomorphology

William Kearney, Gina Arnau, Theophil Bringezu, Michael Dietze, Boris Gailleton, Anna-Lena Lamprecht, Kilian Lenz, Richard Ott, Dirk Scherler, Philippe Steer, and Wolfgang Schwanghart

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2478,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2478, 2026

Preprint under review for ESurf (discussion: final response, 8 comments)

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21 May 2026

Assessing sedimentological proxies for characterizing tropical storm deposits in the Chandipur coastal region of Bay of Bengal, India: A modern analog for paleotempestology

Koushik Saha, Antareep Nandy, Kalben Wanchu Bhutia, and John S. Armstrong-Altrin

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2347,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2347, 2026

Preprint under review for ESurf (discussion: open, 2 comments)

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20 May 2026

Late Pleistocene Aggradation and Holocene Surface Reworking of Fluvial Terraces in the glacially overprinted Western Higher Himalaya

Jonas Kordt, Saptarshi Dey, Bodo Bookhagen, Georg Rugel, Johannes Lachner, Carlos Vivo-Vilches, Naveen Chauhan, and Rasmus Thiede

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2382,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-2382, 2026

Preprint under review for ESurf (discussion: open, 1 comment)

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12 May 2026

OrthoSAM: multi-scale extension of the Segment Anything Model for river pebble delineation from large orthophotos

Vito Chan, Aljoscha Rheinwalt, and Bodo Bookhagen

Earth Surf. Dynam., 14, 391–416, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-391-2026,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-14-391-2026, 2026

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11 May 2026

Combined luminescence dating and ice-flow modelling to track Holocene sediment transport and storage in the Mer de Glace catchment, French Alps

Léa Rodari, Audrey Margirier, Ann V. Rowan, Christoph Schmidt, Remy Veness, Charlotte S. Curry, Alex C. Scoffield, Christiaan R. Diemont, Faye Perchanok, Guillaume Jouvet, Vivi Pedersen, Derek Fabel, and Georgina E. King

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1536,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2026-1536, 2026

Preprint under review for ESurf (discussion: open, 6 comments)

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