Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Papers
(The median citation count of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Multi‐annual variability of storm events and morphological response in the SW Iceland: The Valahnúkamöl boulder barrier31
Simulation of the influence of physical crust development on the aerodynamic entrainment of sand particles on a sloping bed30
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The formation and evolution of Al‐rich protoliths in the southern Ribeira belt, Brazil: Insights from remnants of a Precambrian paleoweathering surface25
Death of a palaeochannel: Slow abandonment of an avulsed channel on the Riverine Plains, SE Australia25
Construction, destruction and fan‐river coupling dynamics during two consecutive debris flow events in an arid fluvial system25
Reconstructing active tectonics from land–sea correlations based on cross‐interpretation of core and seismic data for the Tyrrhenian coastal segment in southern Italy25
Ecosystem engineering by periphyton in Alpine proglacial streams24
Remote detection of upland surface water storage capacity in deglaciated terrain24
Importance of vegetation in riverbank resilience: An experimental approach23
The slow downwearing of Madagascar: Inferring patterns and controls on long‐term basin‐averaged erosion rates from in situ10Be at the catchment and regional level23
Aeolization on the Atlantic coast of Galicia (NW Spain) from the end of the last glacial period to the present day: Chronology, origin and evolution of coastal dunes linked to sea‐level oscillations23
Spatiotemporal changes of desertification areas in the Alxa Desert obtained from satellite imagery23
Classifying types of gully changes with unoccupied aircraft vehicles 3D multitemporal point clouds for training of satellite data analysis in Northwest Namibia23
Unravelling fluvial versus glacial legacy controls on boulder‐bed river geomorphology for semi‐alluvial rivers in Fennoscandia22
Suspended sediment transport in the Mariuá archipelago: A megacomplex anabranching system in the Negro River (Amazon Basin)21
Post‐disturbance evolution of a prograded foredune barrier during a sustained dynamic restoration project—the role of wind speed, wind direction and vegetation21
The how, when, and why of an abandoned bedrock meander of the Colorado River, Utah (U.S.)21
Geomorphological evidence for superimposed deformation in the southern Sichuan Basin, SW China: Implications for seismic hazards20
Confluence morphodynamics in mountain rivers in response to intense tributary bedload input20
Integrated geomorphological–geophysical characterization of periglacial processes and frozen ground distribution in the easternmost edge of the Darwin range, Tierra del Fuego (54° S)20
Structural shifts in plant functional diversity during biogeomorphic succession: Moving beyond taxonomic investigations in an alpine glacier foreland20
Flexible patchy vegetation in a meandering bend: Effect on main flow and dispersion processes19
On a ~210 t Caribbean coastal boulder: The huracanolito seaward of the ruins of the Bucanero resort, Juragua, Oriente, Cuba19
Strengths and weaknesses of acoustic pipe microphone systems in ephemeral, sandy, gravel‐bed rivers19
Bedload tracing with RFID tags in gravel‐bed rivers: Review and meta‐analysis after 20 years of field and laboratory experiments19
Geomorphological evidence of the Malta‐Sicily land‐bridge during the Last Glacial Maximum inferred from seismic profiles18
Evaluating success in a changing academic landscape18
Was the termination of the Jizera River meandering during the Late Holocene caused by anthropogenic or climatic forcing?18
Drainage development on the northern Tibetan Plateau controlled by the Altyn Tagh Fault: Insights from analogue modelling18
The influence of bedrock river morphology and alluvial cover on gravel entrainment: Part 1. Pivot angles and surface roughness18
Evaluation of the applicability of three sediment transport capacity equations on steep colluvial slopes and their modifications18
Simplifying Raupach's model of shear‐stress partitioning by clarifying the relationship between β and σ and quantifying the shear‐stress probability density based on numerical simulation18
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Mio‐Pliocene paleo‐course of Indus River in Upper Sutlej‐Zhada basin: Implication of tectonic uplift on river piracy and drainage reorganization in SW Tibet and NW Himalaya17
3D morphological characteristics of gravel bars in an engineered river using LiDAR data and aerial photographs17
Morphology, timing, and drivers of post‐glacial landslides in the northern Yellowstone region16
Utilizing geospatial tools for the assessment of river bank erosion and migration patterns in complex braided and meandering river systems16
Seasonal rotation of California pocket beaches16
Variation in soil erosion rate under typical land uses and vertical zones in an agricultural catchment of the Daliangshan region, Southwest China16
Large wood decay state and piece shape in river corridors16
Recurrent debris flows and their downstream fate: Geomorphic drivers of an anomalous sediment load, Suiattle River, Washington State, USA16
Observations of megacusp dynamics and their coupling with crescentic bars at an open, fetch‐limited beach16
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Debris‐flow fan development and geomorphic effects in alpine canyons under a changing climate16
Provenance of Taklimakan Desert aeolian sediments based on rare earth elements signatures16
Estimating soil erosion rates using 137 Cs and 210 Pb ex 15
Disintegration characteristics of undisturbed loess in response to train vibration frequency15
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River confinement and braiding loss in Canterbury region, Aotearoa New Zealand15
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Assessing proxy methods for measuring bedrock erodibility in fluvial impact erosion15
Long‐term drivers of shoreline change over two centuries on a headland‐embayment beach15
The impact of catastrophic forest blowdown on large wood loads in headwater streams14
Is a climate signal detectable using cosmogenic data and coarse‐resolution digital topography in fluvially dominated landscapes?14
Seismic signatures of individual wave impacts on a coastal cliff14
Do climate and land use change significantly affect the level of sediment connectivity at different spatiotemporal scales?14
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Fluviomorphic trajectories for dryland ephemeral stream channels following extreme flash floods14
Palimpsest subglacial meltwater corridors of the last cordilleran ice sheet: Geomorphology, stratigraphy and insights into subglacial meltwater dynamics during deglaciation14
Major fluvial erosion and a 500‐Mt sediment pulse triggered by lava‐dam failure, Río Coca, Ecuador13
Iron pools of the typical loess–palaeosol sequence and their environmental significance in northeastern China13
How have Cretan rivers responded to late Holocene uplift? A multi‐millennial, multi‐catchment field experiment to evaluate the applicability of Schumm and Parker's (1973) complex response model13
Legacy sediment: A conceptual model and perspective on the role of dams13
Multi‐decadal gravel beach dynamics in the United Kingdom and Ireland: Insights from satellite‐derived shorelines13
Hydrological and morphological responses in the São Francisco River Basin (Northeast Brazil) resulting from river damming and climate changes in a tropical region13
Coupled effects of heavy rainfall and falling water‐level exhibit the most significant influences on reservoir bank failures13
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The formation of fan‐deltas in mountain lakes: Findings from Zelené Kežmarské Lake (Slovakia)13
115 years of sediment deposition in a reservoir in Central Europe: Topographic change detection12
VedgeSat: An automated, open‐source toolkit for coastal change monitoring using satellite‐derived vegetation edges12
Evolution of riparian vegetation in response to anthropogenic effects: The Taleqan River, Iran12
Development of ornamentation on ventifacts: An examination of flow and saltation kinematic mechanisms12
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Alluvial dynamics of a formerly glaciated Rocky Mountain headwater valley, Colorado12
Climate‐driven alluvial fan aggradation and incision in an unglaciated Himalayan basin, Northwestern India12
Contribution of bedrock structures to the bedrock surface topography and groundwater flow systems within deep glaciofluvial aquifers in Kurikka, Western Finland12
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Spatial gradients in bank stability response in macrotidal environments: Inferences from the Severn estuary (UK)12
From glaciers to large rivers: Lessons and insights from long‐term bedload monitoring12
Relationship between geomorphological characteristics, environmental settings and activity of transitional rock glaciers: Insights from a statistical analysis in the French Alps12
Assessment of western Oregon debris‐flow hazards in burned and unburned environments12
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Evaluating the morphodynamics of a spit complex (Punta Rasa, Argentina): Implications for mid‐term evolution of coastal plains12
Current progress in quantifying and monitoring instream large wood supply and transfer in rivers11
Autonomous generation of alluvial fans in landscape evolution models11
The synergistic effect of soil and water conservation measures on sediment supply reduction in a typical basin on the Loess Plateau, China11
Comparability of multi‐temporal DTMs derived from different LiDAR platforms: Error sources and uncertainties in the application of geomorphic impact studies11
Empirical modeling of streambed hydraulic conductivity in ephemeral rivers: Insights from sediment characteristics in arid environments11
Runoff–sediment dynamics and degradation patterns in an abandoned terraced landscape on the Loess Plateau11
Formation of repeating bar‐flat bedforms in ephemeral gravel bed channels: 1. Field observations11
Sounding out the river: Seismic and hydroacoustic monitoring of bedload transport11
Timescales of formative discharge and principal controls on the channel width of the Jamuna River, Bangladesh11
Assessing ice sheet models against the landform record: The Likelihood of Accordant Lineations Analysis (LALA) tool11
Comparison of creek and bay influences on salt marsh sediment budget and deposition patterns11
Editorial 2025: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms—The 50th volume11
The unrepeatable river: Exploring chaotic variability in laboratory channels11
Evolution, sedimentation and thermal state of the emerging pro‐glacial lakes at Witenwasserengletscher, Switzerland11
Automated grain sizing from uncrewed aerial vehicles imagery of a gravel‐bed river: Benchmarking of three object‐based methods11
A rare piedmont glaciation in the Mediterranean: Insights from cosmogenic 36Cl dating of Davraz hummocky moraine field (SW Türkiye)11
The heterogeneity of the hydromorphological responses of a stream to the urbanization of its basin11
Detection of slow‐moving landslides through automated monitoring of surface deformation using Sentinel‐2 satellite imagery11
Karst landform classification considering surface flow characteristics derived from digital elevation models11
Rock–water interaction, chemical weathering and solute transport of two rivers draining contrasting climate gradients in Western Ghats, India11
Seismic and radon signatures: A multiparametric approach to monitor surface dynamics of a hazardous 2021 rock–ice avalanche, Chamoli Himalaya10
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Relevance of field data in the assessment of structural and functional sediment connectivity in a small catchment of southern Brazilian plateau10
Dynamic bedrock channel width during knickpoint retreat enhances undercutting of coupled hillslopes10
Biocrust as a surface protection of erodible nebkhas10
Study of clay degradation in an earthslide combining OBIA and roughness analysis of UAV‐based optical images10
Formation, development and movement of ords along the Holderness coast (UK): A comparison between 1994–1998 and 2010–2020 in response to changing morphodynamic and hydrodynamic conditions10
Reconstructing basal ice flow patterns of the Last Glacial Maximum Rhine glacier (northern Alpine foreland) based on streamlined subglacial landforms10
Hillslope grain size variation across evolving landscapes linked to climate, tectonics and lithology10
Do feral pigs increase soil erosion? A monsoonal northern Australia case study10
Quantifying the effects of carborundum rock surface smoothing for Schmidt hammer R‐value metrics measured on glacial erratics in the North American Great Lakes region10
Holocene landslides in the Fraser Canyon Corridor and implications for ‘ecohazard’ assessment10
Inferring channel incision in gravel‐bed rivers: Integrating LiDAR data, historical aerial photographs and drone‐based SfM topo‐bathymetry10
Quantifying river morphological changes using multi‐satellite observations and in situ measurements10
Instability mechanism and control measures of loess slope induced by heavy rainfall10
Channel adjustments over 50 years in response to climate change and human activities in the Parlung Zangbo River, Tibetan Plateau, China10
Effects of rainfall patterns, vegetation cover types and antecedent soil moisture on run‐off and soil loss of typical Luvisol in southern China10
Determining pore size distribution in rocks using shear‐thinning fluids: Utilisation of the method in geomorphology10
Influence of orographic precipitation on coevolving landforms and vegetation in semi‐arid ecosystems10
Integrating geomorphic and tectonic signals: A multi‐parameter evaluation of active deformation in the Zanskar Shear Zone, Northwest Himalaya, India9
Triggering mechanism of rainfall and reservoir water level dynamic change‐induced step‐like displacement for reservoir bank landslide9
Long‐term geomorphic response of a southwestern USA river following establishment and removal of an invasive riparian tree9
Quantifying the impacts of climate change and human activities on runoff and suspended sediment load in the Lhasa River Basin, Tibetan Plateau9
Dynamics and internal structure of a rock glacier: Inferring relationships from the combined use of differential synthetic aperture radar interferometry, electrical resistivity tomography and ground‐p9
Late Holocene rupture history of the Ash Hill fault, Eastern California Shear Zone, and the potential for seismogenic strain transfer between nearby faults9
A numerical model predicting lenticular sedimentary structures formed by breaking waves over antidunes9
Vegetation and channel adjustment trajectories in cold regions: The effects of ice disturbances in two Gaspesian rivers9
Assessment of a revised dust prediction model for Mildura, Australia9
Geomorphology of undercut streambank habitat9
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Predicting soil erosion and sediment delivery in large, data‐sparse, mountainous basins9
Soil erosion resistance of gully system under different plant communities on the Loess Plateau of China9
Assessing performance of a “nature‐based” foredune restoration project, Oceano Dunes, California, USA9
The influence of bedrock river morphology and alluvial cover on gravel entrainment. Part 2: Modelling critical shear stress9
Trends in post‐1950 riparian vegetation recovery in coastal catchments of NSW Australia: Implications for remote sensing analysis, forecasting and river management9
Long‐term growth and persistence of granitic inselbergs in a semi‐arid cratonic landscape9
A method for segmentation of pebble images in the presence of shadows9
Moisture patterns and fluxes in evolving tafoni developed in arkosic sandstone in temperate climate9
Rapid riparian vegetation development and channel stabilization linked to glacier retreat within a large transboundary watershed9
Inbuilt age, residence time, and inherited age from radiocarbon dates of modern fires and late Holocene deposits, Western Transverse Ranges, California9
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Inundation and flow properties of a runoff‐generated debris flow following successive high‐severity wildfires in northern Arizona, USA9
Topographic controls on ice flow and recession for Juneau Icefield (Alaska/British Columbia)9
Nearshore ice complex breakup is controlled by a balance between thermal and mechanical processes9
Insights into permafrost aggradation and thawing: A case study of Zonag Lake on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau using SAR interferometry9
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Correction to ‘A karst rather than periglacial origin for small enclosed depressions of the Landes Triangle, southwest France’9
Improving hydroacoustic methods for monitoring suspended‐sand flux and grain size in sediment‐laden rivers9
New Zealand's braided rivers: The land the law forgot9
Controlling effect of sliding zone soil on rainfall‐triggered colluvial landslide in Qinling‐Bashan Mountains – A typical case study9
115 years of sediment deposition in a reservoir in Central Europe: Effects of the industrial history and environmental protection on heavy metals and microplastic9
Hydrogeomorphology of the origin of the Amazon River, the confluence between the Marañón and Ucayali rivers9
Disentangling late quaternary fluvial and climatic drivers of palaeohydrological change in the Najaf Sea basin, Western Iraq9
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Dos Lenguas rock glacier kinematics stable despite warming trend (2016–2024): Surface changes and the role of topography and climate in the Dry Andes of Argentina9
Detection of paraglacial sediment supply using detrital 10Be in postglacial landscapes of southwest British Columbia9
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Calibration and validation of the SSSPAM coupled soilscape–landform evolution model for simulating short‐term gully development on a post‐mining landform8
Differences in sediment provenance from rainfall and snowmelt erosion in the Mollisol region of Northeast China8
Challenges in developing a Schmidt hammer exposure‐age dating calibration curve from glacial erratics in the North American Great Lakes8
Biogeomorphic assessment of natural streambank structures in the Alps: A step to improve soil and water bioengineering techniques8
Channel head response to anthropogenic landscape modification: A case study from the North Carolina Piedmont, USA, with implications for water quality8
A geomorphic perspective on discharge–area relationships8
Islands in the stream: Wood‐induced deposition and erosion in the river corridor8
The development of laterite weathering profiles as a function of rainfall and time: A geophysical approach8
Effects of unsteady characteristics of sediment‐laden overland flow on soil detachment rate8
Cosmogenic 10Be‐ and 21Ne‐based model exposure ages of desert pavements in the Thar Desert, India8
Disintegration characteristics of sodic–saline loessial soil after freeze–thaw and wet–dry cycles8
Changes in shore platform wetting and drying cycles following the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake: Implications for incipient marine terrace evolution8
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Correction to A regime shift in sediment export from a coastal watershed during a record wet winter, California: Implications for landscape response to hydroclimatic extremes8
Genesis of subglacial triangular‐shaped landforms (murtoos) formed by the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet8
Equilibrium of morphological units in anabranching rivers8
Different styles of subglacial soft bed hydrology: Examples from Breiðamerkurjökull and Fjallsjökull, Iceland8
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The end stage of barrier estuary infill: Insights from Jack Smith Lake, Southeastern Australia8
Proglacial lake evolution coincident with glacier dynamics in the frontal zone of Kvíárjökull, South‐East Iceland8
Blowout dynamics in lime‐rich and lime‐poor coastal dunes in the Netherlands8
Quantitative reconstruction of competing sources reveals spatial heterogeneity and complex aeolian–fluvial interactions in the Horqin Sandy Land, NE China8
Structural control of bedrock river alignment and morphology in the Fraser Canyon, British Columbia, Canada8
Understanding tectonics from fluvial topography by using the stochastic‐threshold incision model: Theory and application to the Dadu River basin, eastern Tibetan Plateau8
Downstream fining of fluvial gravels along the eastern Tibetan Plateau rivers8
Fetch‐driven aeolian sediment transport on a sandy beach: A new study8
A framework to facilitate development and testing of image‐based river velocimetry algorithms7
A deep learning architecture and workflow for geomorphic feature extraction using digital terrain model‐derived land surface parameters7
Advancing gully initiation modelling by means of a Curve Number (CN) method: A way forward?7
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The floodplain wood budget: Linking wood dynamics and ecogeomorphic processes7
Landscape evolution and sediment delivery in a High Arctic proglacial lake, Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago7
Annual and decadal net morphological displacement of a small gravel‐bed channel7
Evaluation of multiple time scale rainfall erosivity models: A case study of subtropical regions in Central China7
The geomorphological record of an ice stream to ice shelf transition in Northeast Greenland7
Morphotectonic forcing and anthropogenic impact behind a recently emerged relict island of the Brahmaputra River7
Uncovering fine‐scale surface flow dynamics with particle tracking velocimetry: A new benchmark for soil erosion modelling7
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Channel morphology and large wood control postfire debris‐flow erosion and deposition7
Geomorphic consequences of freshwater discharge and microbial mats in a macrotidal environment: The case of the beach of Dannes (northern France)7
Multidisciplinary approach to revisit the state of activity of a deep‐seated gravitational slope deformation in the frame of the Quaternary geomorphological evolution of the Central Apennines (Italy)7
Sediment and organic carbon discharges to the coastal oceans by badlands (English Channel, Normandy, France)7
The influence of anthropogenic topographic changes on geomorphological processes in the city of Rome (Italy): A case study of the Malagrotta area7
The grain size of sediments delivered to steep debris‐flow prone channels prior to and following wildfire7
Biogeomorphological inheritance: The legacy of past landforms constrains future tropical coastal landscapes7
Direct measurement of the inertial drag and lift forces on entrained coarse particles at various protrusion heights7
Enhanced river planform analysis using deep learning and medial axis transform with Sentinel 1A imagery7
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Observations and modeling of shear stress reduction and sediment flux within sparse dune grass canopies on managed coastal dunes7
Contemporary research in coastal dunes and aeolian processes7
Observing the mass balance and emergence velocity of a temperate glacier on Mt. Yulong, southeastern Tibetan Plateau7
Large wood recruitment in the Tegnas torrent (Italy): The impact of the Vaia storm and the role of the riparian forest structure7
PS‐InSAR post‐processing for assessing the spatio‐temporal differential kinematics of complex landslide systems: A case study of DeBeque Canyon Landslide (Colorado, USA)7
Contrasting beach‐ridge systems in different types of coastal settings7
Riverine aquatic plants trap propagules and fine sediment: Implications for ecosystem engineering and management under contrasting land uses7
Magnitude and timing of transient incision resulting from large‐scale drainage capture, Sutlej River, Northwest Himalaya7
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A comparative analysis of AHP, FR, AHP‐FR and LR models for landslide susceptibility mapping in Sikkim Himalaya, India7
Variance‐based shoreline extraction from nearshore video monitoring systems7
Cross‐divide difference in channel‐head steady‐state elevation controls drainage‐divide migration6
A novel approach for the computation of soil slope stability in distributed hydrologic applications6
Hot rocks? Divergent rock‐surface temperatures during extreme thermal events with implications for physiological stress in rocky shore organisms6
Source areas of the Eastern Ebro Valley loess (NE Iberian Peninsula): Heavy mineral composition as a provenance indicator6
Performance assessment of global open‐access digital elevation models in China mainland coastal region6
Assessing open‐access digital elevation models for hydrological applications in a large scale plain: Drainage networks, shallow water bodies and vertical accuracy6
Cooling glaciers in a warming climate since the Little Ice Age at Qaanaaq, northwest Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)6
Insights into landslide susceptibility in different karst erosion landforms based on interpretable machine learning6
Spatial transferability of the physically based model TRIGRS using parameter ensembles6
A framework for in‐stream jams formed by snow avalanche‐delivered large wood6
How does climate affect the topography in tectonically active orogens6
Deglaciation history and subsequent lake dynamics in the Siljan region, south‐central Sweden, based on new LiDAR evidence and sediment records6
Guidance for parameterizing post‐fire hydrologic models with in situ infiltration measurements6
Navigating the academic ladder as an early career researcher in earth and environmental sciences6
Intersecting views of gully erosion in South Africa6
Control of river discharge on large‐scale estuary morphology6
Global mapping of river sediment bars6
Correction to ‘Inter‐eruptive lahars at El Chichón Volcano (Mexico): Susceptibility analysis and numerical modelling’6
Last interglacial paleoshoreline location and tectono‐stratigraphic evolution of the peri‐Tyrrhenian Sarno basin, southern Italy, constrained by tephrostratigraphy6
A new way to geoengineer landscapes using computer‐based landform evolution models6
The effects of secondary currents in tight bends on large wood transport in rivers: Lesson learned from Versilia flood in 19966
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Using music and music‐based analysis to model and to classify terrain in geomorphology6
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