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Long-runout landslides with associated longitudinal ridges in Iceland as analogues of Martian landslide deposits
Giulia Magnarini
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Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
Anya Champagne
Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Costanza Morino
Laboratoire Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de la Montagne, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS UMR 5204, Chambéry, France
Department of Land, Environnent, Agriculture and Forestry, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
Calvin Beck
Laboratoire Morphodynamique Continentale et Côtière, Normandie Université – UNICAEN – UNIROUEN, CNRS, Caen, UMR 6143 M2C, France
Meven Philippe
Laboratoire Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de la Montagne, Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS UMR 5204, Chambéry, France
Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences, Nantes Université, Univ Angers, Le Mans Université, CNRS, LPG UMR 6112, 44000 Nantes, France
Armelle Decaulne
Laboratoire Littoral – Environnement – Télédétection – Géomatique, Nantes Université, CNRS UMR 6554, Nantes, France
Susan J. Conway
Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences, Nantes Université, Univ Angers, Le Mans Université, CNRS, LPG UMR 6112, 44000 Nantes, France
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EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2689, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2689, 2024
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Pseudo-relict rock glaciers look visually relict but contain patches of permafrost. They are poorly known in terms of permafrost content, spatial distribution and frequency. Here we use spring-water temperature for a preliminary estimate of the permafrost presence in the rock glaciers of a 795 km2 catchment in the Italian Alps. The results show that ~50 % of rock glaciers classified as relict might be pseudo-relict and might contain ~30 % of the ice stored in the rock glaciers in the study area.
Calvin Beck and Lindsey Nicholson
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2766, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2766, 2023
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A glacier’s debris cover strongly modified its mass balance in contrast to a clean ice glacier. A key parameter for calculating sub-debris melt is the thermal diffusivity of the debris layer. Conway and Rasmussen (2000) present a method to estimate this value based on simple heat diffusion principles. Our analysis shows that the selected temporal and spatial sampling intervals effects the estimated value of thermal diffusivity, resulting in glacier melt being systematically underestimated.
Rishitosh K. Sinha, Dwijesh Ray, Tjalling De Haas, Susan J. Conway, and Axel Noblet
Earth Surf. Dynam., 11, 713–730, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-713-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-713-2023, 2023
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Our detailed investigation of Martian gullies formed in different substrates in 29 craters distributed between 30°–75° S latitude suggests that they can be differentiated from one another in terms of (1) morphology and length of alcoves and (2) mean gradient of the gully fans. The comparison between the Melton ratio, alcove length, and fan gradient of Martian and terrestrial gullies suggests that Martian gullies were likely formed by terrestrial debris-flow-like processes in the past.
J.-P. Muller, Y. Tao, A. R. D. Putri, and S. J. Conway
Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLIII-B3-2021, 667–671, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B3-2021-667-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIII-B3-2021-667-2021, 2021
Giulia Sofia, John K. Hillier, and Susan J. Conway
Earth Surf. Dynam., 4, 721–725, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-4-721-2016, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-4-721-2016, 2016
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The interdisciplinarity of geomorphometry is its greatest strength and one of its major challenges. This special issue showcases exciting developments that are the building blocks for the next step-change in the field. In reading and compiling the contributions we hope that the scientific community will be inspired to seek out collaborations and share ideas across subject-boundaries, between technique-developers and users, enabling us as a community to gather knowledge from our digital landscape
J. K. Hillier, G. Sofia, and S. J. Conway
Earth Surf. Dynam., 3, 587–598, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-3-587-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-3-587-2015, 2015
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How good are measurements of shapes in the landscape? This is not well constrained. We suggest that "synthetic tests" using constructed digital landscapes called synthetic DEMs are a powerful and necessary tool to establish the reliability of these data (e.g. mapped sizes). Thus, the tests have a key, complementary role in determining if conceptual and physics-driven models of processes can be reconciled with morphological observations of reality. A typology of synthetic DEMs is proposed.
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Rainfall intensity bursts and the erosion of soils: an analysis highlighting the need for high temporal resolution rainfall data for research under current and future climates
Groundwater seepage landscapes from distant and local sources in experiments and on Mars
Petr Brož, Dorothy Oehler, Adriano Mazzini, Ernst Hauber, Goro Komatsu, Giuseppe Etiope, and Vojtěch Cuřín
Earth Surf. Dynam., 11, 633–661, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-633-2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-11-633-2023, 2023
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The aim of this review is to summarise the current knowledge about mud-volcano-like structures on Mars, address critical aspects of the process of sedimentary volcanism, identify key open questions, and point to areas where further research is needed to understand this phenomenon and its importance in the Red Planet's geological evolution.
Stefan Hergarten and Thomas Kenkmann
Earth Surf. Dynam., 7, 459–473, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-459-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-459-2019, 2019
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Our study reveals that worldwide mean erosion rates on the million-year timescale are very similar to present-day erosion rates in contrast to the majority of the previously published results. Concerning the dependence of erosion on climate, we found that the long-term erosion efficacy of the tropical zone has been about 5 times higher than that of the cold zones, while the erosional efficacy of the present-day arid zone has been as high as that of the temperate zone.
Olga Kromuszczyńska, Daniel Mège, Krzysztof Dębniak, Joanna Gurgurewicz, Magdalena Makowska, and Antoine Lucas
Earth Surf. Dynam., 7, 361–376, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-361-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-361-2019, 2019
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Deep-seated gravitational spreading features are spectacular on Mars on the hillslopes of Valles Marineris, both in terms of landform freshness and size. This paper compares their dimensions and those in terrestrial analogue sites in the Tatra Mountains. Gravitational spreading is thought to be inactive in both locations. We find that the height-to-width ratio, ~0.24, is similar in spite of much larger strain in Valles Marineris. We explore the implications.
David L. Dunkerley
Earth Surf. Dynam., 7, 345–360, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-345-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-7-345-2019, 2019
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Soil erosion, especially in vulnerable conditions such as post-fire landscapes or tilled agricultural soils, is greatly affected by the occurrence of bursts of intense rainfall. These are often set within longer periods of less intense rain. This paper documents the nature of the intensity bursts at two Australian locations and shows that high-resolution rainfall records are required in order to make estimates of the intensity. Hourly rainfall data are not suitable for this task.
W. A. Marra, S. J. McLelland, D. R. Parsons, B. J. Murphy, E. Hauber, and M. G. Kleinhans
Earth Surf. Dynam., 3, 389–408, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-3-389-2015, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-3-389-2015, 2015
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Groundwater seepage creates valleys with typical theater-shaped valley heads, which are found on Earth and on Mars. For a better interpretation of these systems, we conducted scale experiments on the formation such valleys. We find that entire landscapes, instead of just the shape of the valleys, provide insights into the source of groundwater. Landscapes filled with valleys indicate a local groundwater source in contrast to sparsely dissected landscapes formed by a distal source of groundwater.
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We show that Icelandic long-runout landslides with longitudinal ridges represent good analogues of Martian landforms. The large record of long-runout landslides with longitudinal ridges emplaced after the Last Glacial Maximum in Iceland offers a unique opportunity to study the possible relation between the development of these landforms and environmental conditions. This could have implications for reconstructing Martian paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental conditions.
We show that Icelandic long-runout landslides with longitudinal ridges represent good analogues...
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