Optically stimulated luminescence dating using quartz

A Murray, LJ Arnold, JP Buylaert, G Guérin… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) signals from quartz can be used to determine when
sedimentary archives were deposited. OSL dating uses the accumulation of energy stored in …

Quantifying rates of landscape evolution and tectonic processes by thermochronology and numerical modeling of crustal heat transport using PECUBE

J Braun, P Van Der Beek, P Valla, X Robert, F Herman… - Tectonophysics, 2012 - Elsevier
PECUBE is a three-dimensional thermal–kinematic code capable of solving the heat
production–diffusion–advection equation under a temporally varying surface boundary …

Why mountains matter for biodiversity

A Perrigo, C Hoorn, A Antonelli - Journal of Biogeography, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mountains are arguably Earth's most striking features. They play a major role in determining
global and regional climates, are the source of most rivers, act as cradles, barriers and …

Innovations in (U–Th)/He, fission track, and trapped charge thermochronometry with applications to earthquakes, weathering, surface‐mantle connections, and the …

AK Ault, C Gautheron, GE King - Tectonics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A transformative advance in Earth science is the development of low‐temperature
thermochronometry to date Earth surface processes or quantify the thermal evolution of …

Rapid soil production and weathering in the Southern Alps, New Zealand

IJ Larsen, PC Almond, A Eger, JO Stone… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Evaluating conflicting theories about the influence of mountains on carbon dioxide cycling
and climate requires understanding weathering fluxes from tectonically uplifting landscapes …

Tectonics, climate, and mountain topography

JD Champagnac, P Molnar, C Sue… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
By regressing simple, independent variables that describe climate and tectonic processes
against measures of topography and relief of 69 mountain ranges worldwide, we quantify …

Northward migration of the eastern Himalayan syntaxis revealed by OSL thermochronometry

GE King, F Herman, B Guralnik - Science, 2016 - science.org
Erosion influences the dynamical evolution of mountains. However, evidence for the impact
of surface processes on tectonics mostly relies on the circumstantial coincidence of rugged …

Luminescence as a sediment tracer and provenance tool

HJ Gray, M Jain, AO Sawakuchi… - Reviews of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Luminescence holds unique potential as a sediment tracer and provenance method. The
tracer application of luminescence has key advantages including ease of measurement …

Glacial hydrology and erosion patterns: a mechanism for carving glacial valleys

F Herman, F Beaud, JD Champagnac… - Earth and Planetary …, 2011 - Elsevier
Most glacial erosion models assume that erosion rates are proportional to ice-sliding
velocity. While recent studies have shown that water plays a major role in modulating sliding …

Plio‐Pleistocene increase of erosion rates in mountain belts in response to climate change

F Herman, JD Champagnac - Terra Nova, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Here, we review an ensemble of observations that point towards a global increase of
erosion rates in regions of elevated mountain belts, or otherwise high relief, since the onset …