Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Papers
(The TQCC of Earth Surface Processes and Landforms is 6. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Strengths and weaknesses of acoustic pipe microphone systems in ephemeral, sandy, gravel‐bed rivers40
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Spatiotemporal changes of desertification areas in the Alxa Desert obtained from satellite imagery29
Reconstructing active tectonics from land–sea correlations based on cross‐interpretation of core and seismic data for the Tyrrhenian coastal segment in southern Italy28
Post‐disturbance evolution of a prograded foredune barrier during a sustained dynamic restoration project—the role of wind speed, wind direction and vegetation26
The slow downwearing of Madagascar: Inferring patterns and controls on long‐term basin‐averaged erosion rates from in situ10Be at the catchment and regional level25
On a ~210 t Caribbean coastal boulder: The huracanolito seaward of the ruins of the Bucanero resort, Juragua, Oriente, Cuba24
The formation and evolution of Al‐rich protoliths in the southern Ribeira belt, Brazil: Insights from remnants of a Precambrian paleoweathering surface24
Ecosystem engineering by periphyton in Alpine proglacial streams24
Remote detection of upland surface water storage capacity in deglaciated terrain24
Combining geophysical and geomorphological data to reconstruct the development of relief of a medieval castle site in the Spessart low mountain range, Germany23
Ephemeral landform development following rapid coastal uplift in the southern orogen of Taiwan23
Death of a palaeochannel: Slow abandonment of an avulsed channel on the Riverine Plains, SE Australia23
Conceptual model of fracture‐limited sea cliff erosion: Erosion of the seaward tilted flyschs of Socoa, Basque Country, France23
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 oscillations22
Bedload infilling and depositional patterns in chute cutoffs channels of a gravel‐bed river: The Ain River, France22
Unravelling fluvial versus glacial legacy controls on boulder‐bed river geomorphology for semi‐alluvial rivers in Fennoscandia22
Classifying types of gully changes with unoccupied aircraft vehicles 3D multitemporal point clouds for training of satellite data analysis in Northwest Namibia21
Structural shifts in plant functional diversity during biogeomorphic succession: Moving beyond taxonomic investigations in an alpine glacier foreland20
Importance of vegetation in riverbank resilience: An experimental approach20
Bedload tracing with RFID tags in gravel‐bed rivers: Review and meta‐analysis after 20 years of field and laboratory experiments20
Predicting sediment connectivity in a mountain basin: A quantitative analysis of the index of connectivity20
The how, when, and why of an abandoned bedrock meander of the Colorado River, Utah (U.S.)20
Catastrophic overwash and rapid retreat of a gravel barrier spit during storm events (Sillon de Talbert, North Brittany, France)19
Multi‐annual variability of storm events and morphological response in the SW Iceland: The Valahnúkamöl boulder barrier19
Construction, destruction and fan‐river coupling dynamics during two consecutive debris flow events in an arid fluvial system19
‘Fluvial geomorphology and environmental design’: Restitution for damage, rehabilitation, restoration or rewilding?19
Evaluation of the applicability of three sediment transport capacity equations on steep colluvial slopes and their modifications18
Long‐term drivers of shoreline change over two centuries on a headland‐embayment beach18
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Debris‐flow fan development and geomorphic effects in alpine canyons under a changing climate18
Confluence morphodynamics in mountain rivers in response to intense tributary bedload input18
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Rates, factors, and tolerances of water erosion in the Cerrado biome (Brazil): A meta‐analysis of runoff plot data17
Modelling sediment (dis)connectivity across a river network to understand locational‐transmission‐filter sensitivity for identifying hotspots of potential geomorphic adjustment17
Variation in soil erosion rate under typical land uses and vertical zones in an agricultural catchment of the Daliangshan region, Southwest China17
Utilizing geospatial tools for the assessment of river bank erosion and migration patterns in complex braided and meandering river systems16
River confinement and braiding loss in Canterbury region, Aotearoa New Zealand16
Geomorphological evidence of the Malta‐Sicily land‐bridge during the Last Glacial Maximum inferred from seismic profiles16
Was the termination of the Jizera River meandering during the Late Holocene caused by anthropogenic or climatic forcing?16
Recurrent debris flows and their downstream fate: Geomorphic drivers of an anomalous sediment load, Suiattle River, Washington State, USA15
Evaluating success in a changing academic landscape15
The influence of bedrock river morphology and alluvial cover on gravel entrainment: Part 1. Pivot angles and surface roughness15
Morphology, timing, and drivers of post‐glacial landslides in the northern Yellowstone region15
Topographic perturbation of turbulent boundary layers by low‐angle, early‐stage aeolian dunes15
Drainage development on the northern Tibetan Plateau controlled by the Altyn Tagh Fault: Insights from analogue modelling15
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 simulation15
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 Himalaya15
The effects of wind‐generated currents on velocity asymmetry in tidal basins with varying geometries15
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 model14
Water‐induced disintegration behaviour of Malan loess14
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Disintegration characteristics of undisturbed loess in response to train vibration frequency14
Fluviomorphic trajectories for dryland ephemeral stream channels following extreme flash floods14
What type of gully is that? The need for a classification of gullies14
A pedagogy of fluvial geomorphology: Incorporating scaffolding and active learning into tertiary education courses14
Simulation of loess gully evolution based on geographic cellular automata14
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Alluvial dynamics of a formerly glaciated Rocky Mountain headwater valley, Colorado14
The formation of fan‐deltas in mountain lakes: Findings from Zelené Kežmarské Lake (Slovakia)14
Contribution of bedrock structures to the bedrock surface topography and groundwater flow systems within deep glaciofluvial aquifers in Kurikka, Western Finland14
Impacts of raindrops increase particle sedimentation in a sheet flow14
Observations of megacusp dynamics and their coupling with crescentic bars at an open, fetch‐limited beach14
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115 years of sediment deposition in a reservoir in Central Europe: Topographic change detection14
Coupled effects of heavy rainfall and falling water‐level exhibit the most significant influences on reservoir bank failures14
Iron pools of the typical loess–palaeosol sequence and their environmental significance in northeastern China13
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Assessing proxy methods for measuring bedrock erodibility in fluvial impact erosion13
Legacy sediment: A conceptual model and perspective on the role of dams13
Lichen impact on sandstone hardness is species‐specific13
The impact of wind‐waves and sea level rise on the morphodynamics of a sandy estuarine shoal13
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Hydrological and morphological responses in the São Francisco River Basin (Northeast Brazil) resulting from river damming and climate changes in a tropical region13
Assessment of western Oregon debris‐flow hazards in burned and unburned environments13
From glaciers to large rivers: Lessons and insights from long‐term bedload monitoring13
Seismic signatures of individual wave impacts on a coastal cliff13
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VedgeSat: An automated, open‐source toolkit for coastal change monitoring using satellite‐derived vegetation edges13
A dynamic riparian forest structure model for predicting large wood inputs to meandering rivers13
Autonomous generation of alluvial fans in landscape evolution models12
Spatial gradients in bank stability response in macrotidal environments: Inferences from the Severn estuary (UK)12
Perspectives on being a field‐based geomorphologist during pregnancy and early motherhood12
Sounding out the river: Seismic and hydroacoustic monitoring of bedload transport12
Runoff–sediment dynamics and degradation patterns in an abandoned terraced landscape on the Loess Plateau12
Implications of a specific storm event for understanding adjustment of urban dryland channels12
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Current progress in quantifying and monitoring instream large wood supply and transfer in rivers12
Assessing ice sheet models against the landform record: The Likelihood of Accordant Lineations Analysis (LALA) tool12
Carbon stocks in umbric ferralsols driven by plant productivity and geomorphic processes, not by mineral protection12
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
Major fluvial erosion and a 500‐Mt sediment pulse triggered by lava‐dam failure, Río Coca, Ecuador12
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Automated grain sizing from uncrewed aerial vehicles imagery of a gravel‐bed river: Benchmarking of three object‐based methods12
Numerical modeling of groundwater‐driven stream network evolution in low‐relief post‐glacial landscapes12
Comparability of multi‐temporal DTMs derived from different LiDAR platforms: Error sources and uncertainties in the application of geomorphic impact studies12
Evolution, sedimentation and thermal state of the emerging pro‐glacial lakes at Witenwasserengletscher, Switzerland12
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Comparison of the return period for landslide‐triggering rainfall events in Japan based on standardization of the rainfall period11
The heterogeneity of the hydromorphological responses of a stream to the urbanization of its basin11
Empirical modeling of streambed hydraulic conductivity in ephemeral rivers: Insights from sediment characteristics in arid environments11
A rare piedmont glaciation in the Mediterranean: Insights from cosmogenic 36Cl dating of Davraz hummocky moraine field (SW Türkiye)11
The synergistic effect of soil and water conservation measures on sediment supply reduction in a typical basin on the Loess Plateau, China11
Insights into permafrost aggradation and thawing: A case study of Zonag Lake on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau using SAR interferometry11
Detection of slow‐moving landslides through automated monitoring of surface deformation using Sentinel‐2 satellite imagery11
Rock–water interaction, chemical weathering and solute transport of two rivers draining contrasting climate gradients in Western Ghats, India11
Karst landform classification considering surface flow characteristics derived from digital elevation models11
The unrepeatable river: Exploring chaotic variability in laboratory channels11
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Do feral pigs increase soil erosion? A monsoonal northern Australia case study10
Formation, mechanism and significance of alluvial‐dammed lakes in Golmud River catchment, north‐eastern Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau10
Instability mechanism and control measures of loess slope induced by heavy rainfall10
Source of the aeolian sediments in the Yarlung Tsangpo valley and its potential dust contribution to adjacent oceans10
Determining pore size distribution in rocks using shear‐thinning fluids: Utilisation of the method in geomorphology10
Deciphering seismic and normal‐force fluctuation signatures of debris flows: An experimental assessment of effects of flow composition and dynamics10
The role of bathymetry and directional wave conditions on observed crescentic bar dynamics10
Increased asymmetry of pit‐over‐peak statistics with landscape smoothing10
The influence of bedrock river morphology and alluvial cover on gravel entrainment. Part 2: Modelling critical shear stress10
Assessing performance of a “nature‐based” foredune restoration project, Oceano Dunes, California, USA10
Effects of rainfall patterns, vegetation cover types and antecedent soil moisture on run‐off and soil loss of typical Luvisol in southern China10
Detection of paraglacial sediment supply using detrital 10Be in postglacial landscapes of southwest British Columbia10
Reconstructing basal ice flow patterns of the Last Glacial Maximum Rhine glacier (northern Alpine foreland) based on streamlined subglacial landforms10
Biocrust as a surface protection of erodible nebkhas10
Nearshore ice complex breakup is controlled by a balance between thermal and mechanical processes10
On the use of IMU (inertial measurement unit) sensors in geomorphology10
Influence of orographic precipitation on coevolving landforms and vegetation in semi‐arid ecosystems10
Study of clay degradation in an earthslide combining OBIA and roughness analysis of UAV‐based optical images10
Soil erosion resistance of gully system under different plant communities on the Loess Plateau of China10
Inferring channel incision in gravel‐bed rivers: Integrating LiDAR data, historical aerial photographs and drone‐based SfM topo‐bathymetry10
Holocene landslides in the Fraser Canyon Corridor and implications for ‘ecohazard’ assessment10
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
Seismic and radon signatures: A multiparametric approach to monitor surface dynamics of a hazardous 2021 rock–ice avalanche, Chamoli Himalaya10
Editorial 2025: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms—The 50th volume10
The morphology of fluvial‐tidal dunes: Lower Columbia River, Oregon/Washington, USA10
Dynamic bedrock channel width during knickpoint retreat enhances undercutting of coupled hillslopes10
Eemian landscape response to climatic shifts and evidence for northerly Neanderthal occupation at a palaeolake margin in northern Germany9
Relevance of field data in the assessment of structural and functional sediment connectivity in a small catchment of southern Brazilian plateau9
Moisture patterns and fluxes in evolving tafoni developed in arkosic sandstone in temperate climate9
Assessment of a revised dust prediction model for Mildura, Australia9
Predicting soil erosion and sediment delivery in large, data‐sparse, mountainous basins9
Trends in post‐1950 riparian vegetation recovery in coastal catchments of NSW Australia: Implications for remote sensing analysis, forecasting and river management9
Engineering geomorphology: A novel professional profile to face applied challenges in earth surface dynamics in mid‐Europe9
Channel‐reach morphology and landscape properties are linked across a large heterogeneous region9
Physical modelling of large wood (LW) processes relevant for river management: Perspectives from New Zealand and Switzerland9
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Topographic controls on ice flow and recession for Juneau Icefield (Alaska/British Columbia)9
A method for segmentation of pebble images in the presence of shadows9
Seasonal morphodynamics of multiple intertidal bars (MITBs) on a meso‐ to macrotidal beach9
Changes in shore platform wetting and drying cycles following the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake: Implications for incipient marine terrace evolution9
Inbuilt age, residence time, and inherited age from radiocarbon dates of modern fires and late Holocene deposits, Western Transverse Ranges, California9
Pluri‐decadal evolution of rock glaciers surface velocity and its impact on sediment export rates towards high alpine torrents9
Soil erosion and sediment transport in Tanzania: Part I – sediment source tracing in three neighbouring river catchments9
Disentangling late quaternary fluvial and climatic drivers of palaeohydrological change in the Najaf Sea basin, Western Iraq9
Vegetation and channel adjustment trajectories in cold regions: The effects of ice disturbances in two Gaspesian rivers9
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Sediment transport at the network scale and its link to channel morphology in the braided Vjosa River system9
Hydrogeomorphology of the origin of the Amazon River, the confluence between the Marañón and Ucayali rivers9
The fluvial architecture of buried floodplain sediments of the Weiße Elster River (Germany) revealed by a novel method combination of drill cores with two‐dimensional and spatially resolved geophysica9
Impacts of in‐stream aggregate mining on the distributary channels of the alluvial fans of Tafí valley (Northwest Argentina)9
Late Holocene rupture history of the Ash Hill fault, Eastern California Shear Zone, and the potential for seismogenic strain transfer between nearby faults9
New Zealand's braided rivers: The land the law forgot9
The impact of lateral flow contraction on the rock plucking process under sub‐critical flow conditions9
The effects of cyanobacterial biofilms on water transport and retention of natural building stones9
Improving hydroacoustic methods for monitoring suspended‐sand flux and grain size in sediment‐laden rivers9
Rapid riparian vegetation development and channel stabilization linked to glacier retreat within a large transboundary watershed9
Inundation and flow properties of a runoff‐generated debris flow following successive high‐severity wildfires in northern Arizona, USA9
Disintegration characteristics of sodic–saline loessial soil after freeze–thaw and wet–dry cycles8
Quantifying the impacts of climate change and human activities on runoff and suspended sediment load in the Lhasa River Basin, Tibetan Plateau8
Calibration and validation of the SSSPAM coupled soilscape–landform evolution model for simulating short‐term gully development on a post‐mining landform8
Equilibrium of morphological units in anabranching rivers8
Flood risk of embanked areas and potential use of dredge spoils as mitigation measures in the southwest region of the Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna Delta, Bangladesh8
Salt‐marsh retreat on different time scales: Issues and prospects from a 5‐year monitoring campaign in the Venice Lagoon8
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Coastal erosion and sediment reworking caused by hurricane Irma – implications for storm impact on low‐lying tropical islands8
Proglacial lake evolution coincident with glacier dynamics in the frontal zone of Kvíárjökull, South‐East Iceland8
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‐p8
Cosmogenic 10Be‐ and 21Ne‐based model exposure ages of desert pavements in the Thar Desert, India8
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Geomorphic consequences of freshwater discharge and microbial mats in a macrotidal environment: The case of the beach of Dannes (northern France)8
Downstream fining of fluvial gravels along the eastern Tibetan Plateau rivers8
Different styles of subglacial soft bed hydrology: Examples from Breiðamerkurjökull and Fjallsjökull, Iceland8
The giant 1960 tsunami in the context of a 6000‐year record of paleotsunamis and coastal evolution in south‐central Chile8
Modelling seasonal variation of gully erosion at the catchment scale8
115 years of sediment deposition in a reservoir in Central Europe: Effects of the industrial history and environmental protection on heavy metals and microplastic8
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Timing, volume and precursory indicators of rock‐ and cliff fall on a permafrost mountain ridge (Mattertal, Switzerland)8
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
Effects of unsteady characteristics of sediment‐laden overland flow on soil detachment rate8
Understanding tectonics from fluvial topography by using the stochastic‐threshold incision model: Theory and application to the Dadu River basin, eastern Tibetan Plateau7
Differences in sediment provenance from rainfall and snowmelt erosion in the Mollisol region of Northeast China7
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Decadal‐scale impacts of changing mangrove extent on hydrodynamics and sediment transport in a quiescent, mesotidal estuary7
A framework to facilitate development and testing of image‐based river velocimetry algorithms7
The influence of anthropogenic topographic changes on geomorphological processes in the city of Rome (Italy): A case study of the Malagrotta area7
The geomorphological record of an ice stream to ice shelf transition in Northeast Greenland7
Annual and decadal net morphological displacement of a small gravel‐bed channel7
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Morphotectonic forcing and anthropogenic impact behind a recently emerged relict island of the Brahmaputra River7
Quantitative reconstruction of competing sources reveals spatial heterogeneity and complex aeolian–fluvial interactions in the Horqin Sandy Land, NE China7
Contemporary research in coastal dunes and aeolian processes7
Structural control of bedrock river alignment and morphology in the Fraser Canyon, British Columbia, Canada7
The development of laterite weathering profiles as a function of rainfall and time: A geophysical approach7
Spatial and temporal controls on proglacial erosion rates: A comparison of four basins on Mount Rainier, 1960 to 20177
The grain size of sediments delivered to steep debris‐flow prone channels prior to and following wildfire7
Variance‐based shoreline extraction from nearshore video monitoring systems7
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Evaluation of multiple time scale rainfall erosivity models: A case study of subtropical regions in Central China7
Measuring the grain‐size distributions of mass movement deposits7
Riverine aquatic plants trap propagules and fine sediment: Implications for ecosystem engineering and management under contrasting land uses7
Surface slip variability on strike‐slip faults7
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Magnitude and timing of transient incision resulting from large‐scale drainage capture, Sutlej River, Northwest Himalaya7
Channel head response to anthropogenic landscape modification: A case study from the North Carolina Piedmont, USA, with implications for water quality7
Blowout dynamics in lime‐rich and lime‐poor coastal dunes in the Netherlands7
A geomorphic perspective on discharge–area relationships7
Genesis of subglacial triangular‐shaped landforms (murtoos) formed by the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet7
Islands in the stream: Wood‐induced deposition and erosion in the river corridor7
Biogeomorphological inheritance: The legacy of past landforms constrains future tropical coastal landscapes7
Wind flow dynamics and sand deposition behind excavated foredune notches on developed coasts7
Sediment and organic carbon discharges to the coastal oceans by badlands (English Channel, Normandy, France)7
Contrasting beach‐ridge systems in different types of coastal settings7
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Landscape evolution and sediment delivery in a High Arctic proglacial lake, Ellesmere Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago7
Direct measurement of the inertial drag and lift forces on entrained coarse particles at various protrusion heights7
Observations and modeling of shear stress reduction and sediment flux within sparse dune grass canopies on managed coastal dunes7
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
Fetch‐driven aeolian sediment transport on a sandy beach: A new study7
Aeolian dust accretion outpaces erosion in the formation of Mediterranean alpine soils. New evidence from the periglacial zone of Mount Olympus, Greece6
Tiny niche terrain induces gully headcut retreat6
Driving mechanisms and hydro‐chemical variation for assessing salt‐induced weathering of sandstone in grotto relics6
A Kalman filter‐Hungarian algorithm with a postprocessor for tracking aeolian saltating particle in high‐speed video6
Characterization of post‐event kinematics of Baige landslide using multi‐source remotely‐sensed imagery6
Mechanism of rainfall‐induced toppling in loess collapses6
Guidance for parameterizing post‐fire hydrologic models with in situ infiltration measurements6
Climate‐change driven increased flood magnitudes and frequency in the British uplands: Geomorphologically informed scientific underpinning for upland flood‐risk management6
River adjustments in response to human activities: A case study of the lower Beijiang River, China6
A framework for predicting abrasion rupture of crusts in wind erosion6
Conceptual model for the formation of bedforms along subglacial meltwater corridors (SMCs) by variable ice‐water‐bed interactions6
Spatial transferability of the physically based model TRIGRS using parameter ensembles6
How does climate affect the topography in tectonically active orogens6
Post‐fire management effects on sediment (dis)connectivity in Mediterranean forest ecosystems: Channel and catchment response6
Assessing land use effects on ecohydrological partitioning in the critical zone through isotope‐aided modelling6
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