Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Papers
(The median citation count of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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A transient, perched aquifer model for banana hole formation: Evidence from San Salvador Island, Bahamas55
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Effect of weathering on short‐ and long‐term mechanical behaviour of granitic soils from the Benggang area under unloading conditions36
Spatial and temporal controls on proglacial erosion rates: A comparison of four basins on Mount Rainier, 1960 to 201734
Effects of unsteady characteristics of sediment‐laden overland flow on soil detachment rate31
Paleoenvironmental context of fluvial soils in the dryest region of Brazilian semiarid30
Equilibrium of morphological units in anabranching rivers28
Spatiotemporal changes of desertification areas in the Alxa Desert obtained from satellite imagery27
Tests on the mitigation of dry granular flows induced by mountain landslides using ring‐net technologies27
Downstream fining of fluvial gravels along the eastern Tibetan Plateau rivers26
Different styles of subglacial soft bed hydrology: Examples from Breiðamerkurjökull and Fjallsjökull, Iceland24
Mapping landscape evolution in 3D: Climate change, natural hazard and human settlements across the 1618 Piuro landslide in the Italian Central Alps24
Development and application of an integrated methodology for post‐disaster field investigation of debris floods24
Catastrophic overwash and rapid retreat of a gravel barrier spit during storm events (Sillon de Talbert, North Brittany, France)22
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Sediment deposition (1940–2017) in a historically pristine lake in a rapidly developing tropical highland region in Ethiopia22
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Short‐term biogeomorphology of a gravel‐bed river: Integrating remote sensing with hydraulic modelling and field analysis22
Introduction to the Women in Geomorphology special issue21
Ephemeral landform development following rapid coastal uplift in the southern orogen of Taiwan20
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Statistically derived morphological signatures of large river channels extracted from topo‐bathymetric LiDAR data19
The internal structure of spring mounds of Nefzaoua oasis in Tunisia: Formation of an original geomorphic structure19
Contemporary research in coastal dunes and aeolian processes19
Late Holocene evolution of a coastal barrier system at Bilene, Mozambique18
Employing novel wireless agricultural sensors for real‐time monitoring of fluvial bank erosion18
Origin and post‐glacial evolution of surface cracks: A case study from the area of the Last Glaciation, north‐eastern Poland18
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Death of a palaeochannel: Slow abandonment of an avulsed channel on the Riverine Plains, SE Australia18
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Urban sustainability: Lessons from organisms and ecosystems17
Genesis of subglacial triangular‐shaped landforms (murtoos) formed by the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet17
Riparian vegetation's effects on the evolution of an experimental meandering channel driven by an upper vortex flow17
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Discussion on: Supergene sulphuric acid speleogenesis and the origin of hypogene caves: Evidence from the Northern Pennines, UK in Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 46, 455–464 (2021)15
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Remote detection of upland surface water storage capacity in deglaciated terrain15
Coastal sedimentation and topographic changes in the Mataram Plain, Lombok (Indonesia) following the 1257 CE eruption of Samalas volcano14
Ecosystem engineering by periphyton in Alpine proglacial streams14
Investigating earthquake legacy effect on hillslope deformation using InSAR‐derived time series14
Alluvial fan aggradation in low relief, humid‐temperate landscapes, Uwharrie National Forest, North Carolina Piedmont14
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New remote method to systematically extract bedrock channel width of small catchments across large spatial scales using high‐resolution digital elevation models14
Fetch‐driven aeolian sediment transport on a sandy beach: A new study13
Simulating the role of tides and sediment characteristics on tidal flat sorting and bedding dynamics13
Post‐disturbance evolution of a prograded foredune barrier during a sustained dynamic restoration project—the role of wind speed, wind direction and vegetation13
Accept and support a multi‐thread career path to keep women in the academic stream13
An overcooled coarse‐grained talus slope at low elevation: New insights on air circulation and environmental impacts, Cannon Cliff, New Hampshire, USA13
Measuring the grain‐size distributions of mass movement deposits13
The formation and evolution of Al‐rich protoliths in the southern Ribeira belt, Brazil: Insights from remnants of a Precambrian paleoweathering surface13
Deformation characteristics and reactivated failure modes of the massive Baimu ancient landslide deposit on the northern margin of the East Himalayan syntaxis13
Glacial landscape configuration influences channel response to flooding13
Quantitative reconstruction of competing sources reveals spatial heterogeneity and complex aeolian–fluvial interactions in the Horqin Sandy Land, NE China13
Observer‐bias and sampling uncertainties in riverine wood flux and volume estimation from video monitoring technique13
Coastal aeolian sediment transport in an active bed surface layer: Tracer study and conceptual model13
How the capacity of bedrock to collect dust and produce soil affects phosphorus bioavailability in the northern Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania13
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Site‐scale drivers of post‐fire vegetation regrowth in gullies: A case study in Mediterranean Europe12
Importance of vegetation in riverbank resilience: An experimental approach12
Channel head response to anthropogenic landscape modification: A case study from the North Carolina Piedmont, USA, with implications for water quality12
Geodynamic control on Pleistocene coral reef development: Insights from northwest Sumba Island (Indonesia)12
In‐situ measurement of grain size characteristics within the aeolian saltation layer on a coastal beach12
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Ferricretes in fluvial archives of a tropical iron province: Records of the Late Quaternary landscape dynamics in the Brazilian Atlantic Plateau12
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Understanding tectonics from fluvial topography by using the stochastic‐threshold incision model: Theory and application to the Dadu River basin, eastern Tibetan Plateau12
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Islands in the stream: Wood‐induced deposition and erosion in the river corridor12
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Runoff and sediment reduction effects of different Paspalum wettsteinii‐planting measures on the slopes of Masson pine plantation in the red soil region of southern China12
Zoonotic diseases in a ‘Pandemicene’: How can geomorphology contribute to the improved characterisation of dynamic ‘pathogenic landscapes’?12
Blowout dynamics in lime‐rich and lime‐poor coastal dunes in the Netherlands12
Combining geophysical and geomorphological data to reconstruct the development of relief of a medieval castle site in the Spessart low mountain range, Germany12
Defining the length parameter in river bifurcation models: a theoretical approach11
Structural control of bedrock river alignment and morphology in the Fraser Canyon, British Columbia, Canada11
Formation of crevasse‐squeeze ridges at Trygghamna, Svalbard11
Achieving change through gully erosion research11
Strengths and weaknesses of acoustic pipe microphone systems in ephemeral, sandy, gravel‐bed rivers11
Lateral bedrock erosion and valley formation in a heterogeneously layered landscape, Northeast Kansas11
The impacts of low flow, ice‐cover and ice thickness on sediment load in a sub‐arctic river – Modelling sediment transport with particle image velocimetry calibration data sets11
Detection of decadal time‐series changes in flow hydrology in eastern Australia: Considerations for river recovery and flood management11
On a ~210 t Caribbean coastal boulder: The huracanolito seaward of the ruins of the Bucanero resort, Juragua, Oriente, Cuba11
Effect of the surface water content on dry saltation cloud dynamics: A wind tunnel simulation with particle tracking velocimetry11
Spatial relationship of landform surface features and biocrusts, and their effect on soil microbial biomass on an alluvial fan11
Agitation and its control on excess pore water pressure and debris‐flow behaviour11
Periglacial resurfacing of hillslopes and channels with large boulders in the Virginia Appalachians11
The development of laterite weathering profiles as a function of rainfall and time: A geophysical approach11
A novel QLattice‐based whitening machine learning model of landslide susceptibility mapping11
Modelling of large wood export at a watershed scale11
Near‐continuous monitoring of a coastal salt marsh margin: Implications for predicting marsh edge erosion11
Flood risk of embanked areas and potential use of dredge spoils as mitigation measures in the southwest region of the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna Delta, Bangladesh10
Development of high‐resolution monthly precipitation datasets for geomorphological applications in the Tianshan Mountains from 2000 to 205010
Suitability of phytoliths as a quantitative process tracer for soil erosion studies10
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Combining electrical resistivity tomography and passive seismic to characterise the subsurface architecture of a deeply weathered lateritic hill within the Avon River critical zone observatory10
Observations and modeling of shear stress reduction and sediment flux within sparse dune grass canopies on managed coastal dunes10
Effects of the 2011 Tohoku‐oki tsunami and human activities on long‐term coastal geomorphic development in northeastern Tohoku, Japan10
Bedload infilling and depositional patterns in chute cutoffs channels of a gravel‐bed river: The Ain River, France10
A general model for predicting aeolian transport rate over sand surfaces with vegetation cover10
Challenging underground geophysical, geological and topographical surveys in the Borna Maggiore di Pugnetto karst collapse cave to delineate its genesis and actual structure10
Development of an automated mobile grain size mapping of a mixed sediment beach10
Timing, volume and precursory indicators of rock‐ and cliff fall on a permafrost mountain ridge (Mattertal, Switzerland)10
Anatomy of a deep Piedmont critical zone: Evaluating hypotheses on regolith depth controls through comparison of ridge and valley boreholes10
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Morphological and structural characteristics of preferential flow and its influencing factors on colluvial deposits of Benggang10
Observations and computational multi‐phase modelling in tropical river settings show complex channel changes downstream from rainfall‐triggered landslides9
The fluvial grain‐size gap: Experimental confirmation of hydraulic origin9
Quantifying the influence of rainfall, vegetation and animals on soil erosion and hillslope connectivity in the monsoonal tropics of northern Australia9
UAV‐SfM‐based field quantification of barchan dune celerity and morphodynamics in Gonghe Basin9
‘Fluvial geomorphology and environmental design’: Restitution for damage, rehabilitation, restoration or rewilding?9
Observations of the incipient and penultimate stages of Holocene marine terrace development9
Historic channel dynamics of a highly developed dryland river9
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Structural shifts in plant functional diversity during biogeomorphic succession: Moving beyond taxonomic investigations in an alpine glacier foreland9
Conceptual model of fracture‐limited sea cliff erosion: Erosion of the seaward tilted flyschs of Socoa, Basque Country, France9
Modelling alpine glacier geometry and subglacial erosion patterns in response to contrasting climatic forcing9
Classifying types of gully changes with unoccupied aircraft vehicles 3D multitemporal point clouds for training of satellite data analysis in Northwest Namibia9
Grain size estimation in fluvial gravel bars using uncrewed aerial vehicles: A comparison between methods based on imagery and topography9
Is a glacier gone when it looks gone? Subsurface characteristics of high‐Arctic ice‐cored slopes as evidence of the latest maximum glacier extent9
Oil and gas development influences potential for dust emission from the Upper Colorado River Basin, USA9
The where and why of large wood occurrence in the Upper Mississippi and Illinois Rivers9
Stream power indices correspond poorly with observations of alluvial river channel adjustment9
Decay of ignimbrite fairy chimneys of Arizona's Basin and Range Province, USA9
Monitoring of thermal conditions and snow dynamics at periglacial block accumulations in a low mountain range in central Germany9
The applicability of automated marine clay gully delineation using deep learning in Norway9
A geomorphic perspective on discharge–area relationships9
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Advanced methods to investigate hydro‐morphological processes in open‐water environments9
Development of the critical zone environment in the highly dynamic landscape of the Forni Glacier forefield: Winds, tree vegetation, pedogenesis and surface waters after glacier retreat8
Morpho‐sedimentary evolution of a microtidal meandering channel driven by 130 years of natural and anthropogenic modifications of the Venice Lagoon (Italy)8
Modelling the systematics of cosmogenic nuclide signals in fluvial sediments following extreme events8
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Evaluating a new landform evolution model: A case study using a proposed mine rehabilitation landform8
Automated detecting, segmenting and measuring of grains in images of fluvial sediments: The potential for large and precise data from specialist deep learning models and transfer learning8
Relation between soil glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers and temperature in different climatic regions in China8
Late Quaternary terrace formation from knickpoint propagation in the headwaters of the Yellow River, NE Tibetan Plateau8
Disturbance and valley confinement: Controls on floodplain large wood and organic matter jam deposition in the Colorado Front Range, USA8
The how, when, and why of an abandoned bedrock meander of the Colorado River, Utah (U.S.)8
Improving UAV‐SfM photogrammetry for modelling high‐relief terrain: Image collection strategies and ground control quantity8
A systematic approach and software for the analysis of point patterns on river networks8
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Bedload tracing with RFID tags in gravel‐bed rivers: Review and meta‐analysis after 20 years of field and laboratory experiments8
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
Effect of soil hydrological conditions on rainfall erosion on coastal saline soil slopes8
Rectangular drainage pattern evolution controlled by pipe cave collapse along clastic dikes, the Dead Sea Basin, Israel8
Late erosion pulse triggered by rapid melt in the cold‐based interior of the last Fennoscandian Ice Sheet, an example from Rogen8
The impact of sediment flux and calibre on flood risk in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal8
Integration of RUSLE model with remotely sensed data over Google Earth Engine to evaluate soil erosion in Central Indus Basin8
Salt‐marsh retreat on different time scales: Issues and prospects from a 5‐year monitoring campaign in the Venice Lagoon8
Integrating sediment connectivity and stream power index with RUSLE for modelling soil erosion dynamics in a large Himalayan basin under modern and future climate scenarios8
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Active temperate glacial landsystem evolution in association with outwash head/depositional overdeepenings8
The slow downwearing of Madagascar: Inferring patterns and controls on long‐term basin‐averaged erosion rates from in situ10Be at the catchment and regional level8
Multiscale characterization of splays produced by a historic, rain‐on‐snow flood on a large braided stream (Platte River, Central USA)8
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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 oscillations8
Predicting sediment connectivity in a mountain basin: A quantitative analysis of the index of connectivity7
Biogeomorphological inheritance: The legacy of past landforms constrains future tropical coastal landscapes7
Stable rivers: A case study in the application of text‐to‐image generative models for Earth sciences7
Mechanism of enhanced mobility of glacial debris flows induced by ice and rock avalanches in southeast Tibet, China: Insights from impact loading tests7
Assessment of magnetite as a magnetic tracer for sediments in the study of ephemeral gully erosion: Conditioning factors of magnetic susceptibility7
Accounting for the power of nature: Using flume and field studies to compare the capacities of bio‐energy and fluvial energy to move surficial gravels7
Forward modelling of the completeness and preservation of palaeoclimate signals recorded by ice‐marginal moraines7
Lowland rivers: Geomorphology, human impacts, and management7
Riparian shading mitigates warming but cannot revert thermal alteration by impoundments in lowland rivers7
Distinct shoreline behaviour along storm‐dominated and geologically controlled coastal barriers7
Reconstructing active tectonics from land–sea correlations based on cross‐interpretation of core and seismic data for the Tyrrhenian coastal segment in southern Italy7
Geomorphological evidence of the Malta‐Sicily land‐bridge during the Last Glacial Maximum inferred from seismic profiles7
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 Himalaya7
Water level control on coastal landform distribution and associated processes in a highly fluctuating shallow lake (Gallocanta Lake, NE Spain)7
New insights into the thermo‐tectonic development of the Suez rift within the framework of the northern Arabian–Nubian Shield7
Differences in sediment provenance from rainfall and snowmelt erosion in the Mollisol region of Northeast China7
The relative role of constructive and destructive processes in dune evolution on Cape Lookout National Seashore, North Carolina, USA7
Paleo‐denudation rates suggest variations in runoff drove aggradation during last glacial cycle, Crete, Greece7
Connectivity and directionality in estuarine channel networks7
Confluence morphodynamics in mountain rivers in response to intense tributary bedload input7
How debris‐flow composition affects bed erosion quantity and mechanisms: An experimental assessment7
Distinguishing the effects of vegetation characteristics on soil erosion process on the loess plateau of China7
Provenance of Baker River sediments (Chile, 48°S): Implications for the identification of flood deposits in fjord sediments7
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Varied root effects on soil detachment with growth time and hydrodynamic characteristics7
Patterns of vegetation expansion during dune stabilization at the decadal scale7
Unravelling fluvial versus glacial legacy controls on boulder‐bed river geomorphology for semi‐alluvial rivers in Fennoscandia7
Editorial: Double‐blind review, the ‘Matthew effect’, equality and diversity at ESPL7
A general Lagrangian tracking methodology for riverine flow and transport7
Construction, destruction and fan‐river coupling dynamics during two consecutive debris flow events in an arid fluvial system7
Illuminating past river incision, sediment source and pathways using luminescence signals of individual feldspar grains (Rangitikei River, New Zealand)6
Rates, factors, and tolerances of water erosion in the Cerrado biome (Brazil): A meta‐analysis of runoff plot data6
Annual and decadal net morphological displacement of a small gravel‐bed channel6
Variation in soil erosion rate under typical land uses and vertical zones in an agricultural catchment of the Daliangshan region, Southwest China6
The effects of wind‐generated currents on velocity asymmetry in tidal basins with varying geometries6
Assessment of pebble virtual velocities by combining active RFID fixed stations with geophones6
Sediment transport and the freshwater modification of tidal hydraulics approaching a fjordic sill: The Falls of Lora, Loch Etive, western Scotland, UK6
Quantifying and analysing rock trait distributions of rocky fault scarps using deep learning6
The geomorphological record of an ice stream to ice shelf transition in Northeast Greenland6
Controls on the development of continuous gullies: A 60 year monitoring study in the Moldavian Plateau of Romania6
Debris‐flow fan development and geomorphic effects in alpine canyons under a changing climate6
Decadal‐scale impacts of changing mangrove extent on hydrodynamics and sediment transport in a quiescent, mesotidal estuary6
Topographic perturbation of turbulent boundary layers by low‐angle, early‐stage aeolian dunes6
Geomorphological processes and landforms in the Alpine Sulzenau Valley (Tyrol, Austria): Glacier retreat, glacial lake evolution and the 2017 glacial lake outburst flood6
UAV RGB, thermal infrared and multispectral imagery used to investigate the control of terrain on the spatial distribution of dryland biocrust6
Modulating the lateral migration of a gravel bed channel using the coarse tail of the bed material distribution6
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 simulation6
Revisiting the geomorphological‐biological divide: An introspective biogeomorphological perspective6
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Contrasting beach‐ridge systems in different types of coastal settings6
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Crustal uplift rates implied by synchronously investigating Late Quaternary marine terraces in the Milazzo Peninsula, Northeast Sicily, Italy6
Morphodynamic effects of vegetation life stage on experimental meandering channels6
A comparison of hillslope drainage area estimation methods using high‐resolution DEMs with implications for topographic studies of gullies6
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Morphotectonic forcing and anthropogenic impact behind a recently emerged relict island of the Brahmaputra River6
Assessing DEM quality and minimizing registration error in repeated geomorphic surveys with multi‐temporal ground truths of invariant features: Application to a long‐term dataset of beach topography a6
Shoreline change dynamics along the Augusta coast, eastern Sicily, South Italy6
Wind flow dynamics and sand deposition behind excavated foredune notches on developed coasts6
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Surface slip variability on strike‐slip faults6
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Untangling the controls on bedload transport in a wood‐loaded river with RFID tracers and linear mixed modelling6
Evaluating success in a changing academic landscape6
Initial morphological responses of coastal beaches to a mega offshore artificial island6
Splash detachment of sand particles under varying contact stress field of wind‐driven raindrop impact6
Evolution of riverbed morphology in a main‐stem river due to management of sediment source areas6
Seven decades of shoreline changes along a muddy mangrove coastline of the Upper Gulf of Thailand6
Effect of vegetation cover and sediment type on 3D subsurface structure and shear strength in saltmarshes6
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Tsunami propagation and flooding maps: An application for the Island of Lampedusa, Sicily Channel, Italy6
PS‐InSAR post‐processing for assessing the spatio‐temporal differential kinematics of complex landslide systems: A case study of DeBeque Canyon Landslide (Colorado, USA)6
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Nature‐based solutions enhance sediment and nutrient storage in an agricultural lowland catchment5
Direct measurement of the inertial drag and lift forces on entrained coarse particles at various protrusion heights5
Spatial variability of soil physicochemical properties under different land uses impacted by erosion on karst hillslopes in Southwest China5
Geomorphology of the fluvial–estuarine transition zone, lower Neuse River, North Carolina5
Automated extraction of mining‐induced ground fissures using deep learning and object‐based image classification5
Flooding duration and volume more important than peak discharge in explaining 18 years of gravel–cobble river change5
Glacial and volcanic landforms in the upper catchment of Claro River, Central Chile (35.5°S): A Late Quaternary geomorphological case study5
Subglacial evolution from distributed to channelized drainage: Evidence from the Lake Murtoo area in SW Finland5
Pro+: Automated protrusion and critical shear stress estimates from 3D point clouds of gravel beds5
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