The impact of vegetation on meandering rivers

A Ielpi, MGA Lapôtre, MR Gibling… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The Palaeozoic evolution of land plants revolutionized river geomorphology. However, the
relationships between biotic forcing and channel dynamics are still debated and, as such …

Coal-bearing fluvial cycles of the late Paleozoic tropics; astronomical control on sediment supply constrained by high-precision radioisotopic ages, Upper Silesian …

S Opluštil, J Laurin, L Hýlová, J Jirásek, M Schmitz… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The late Paleozoic sedimentary record is well known for its mixed marine–terrestrial coal-
bearing sedimentary sequences, traditionally called cyclothems, and their hypothetical …

The invasion of the land in deep time: integrating Paleozoic records of paleobiology, ichnology, sedimentology, and geomorphology

LA Buatois, NS Davies, MR Gibling… - Integrative and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The invasion of the land was a complex, protracted process, punctuated by mass extinctions,
that involved multiple routes from marine environments. We integrate paleobiology …

The Devonian landscape factory: plant–sediment interactions in the Old Red Sandstone of Svalbard and the rise of vegetation as a biogeomorphic agent

NS Davies, CM Berry, JEA Marshall… - Journal of the …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Devonian Period was a crucial interval in the evolution of plants. During its 60
myr duration, it witnessed the successive evolution of roots, wood, trees and forests. In …

The role of vegetation and large wood on the topographic characteristics of braided river systems

L Mao, D Ravazzolo, W Bertoldi - Geomorphology, 2020 - Elsevier
Riparian vegetation and large wood play a crucial role in shaping rivers. On the one hand,
vegetation tends to increase bank stability, reduce channel width and reduce the braiding …

[HTML][HTML] A lithostratigraphic reappraisal of a Permian-Triassic fluvial succession at Allan Hills (Antarctica) and implications for the terrestrial end-Permian extinction …

G Cornamusini, L Zurli, GP Liberato, V Corti… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Between Permian to Triassic, the Earth experienced climatic and biotic crises,
included the greatest mass extinction at the Permian-Triassic boundary. These climatic and …

Large woody debris accumulations in the Late Pennsylvanian tropics—evolutionary signal or tectono-climatic archive?

S Trümper, V Mencl, S Opluštil, S Niemirowska… - …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
By colonizing drylands, plants fundamentally changed continental deposition and, thus,
intensified the interaction between life and sediments. Fossil large woody debris in epiclastic …

A dwarf conifer tree from the Triassic of Antarctica: the first fossil evidence of suppressed growth in a favourable climate?

AL Decombeix, P Hiller, B Bomfleur - Annals of Botany, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims The complexity of fossil forest ecosystems is difficult to
reconstruct due to the fragmentary nature of the fossil record. However, detailed morpho …

Paleoclimate-induced stress on polar forested ecosystems prior to the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

EL Gulbranson, MM Mellum, V Corti, A Dahlseid… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The end-Permian extinction (EPE) has been considered to be contemporaneous on land
and in the oceans. However, re-examined floristic records and new radiometric ages from …

Detrital zircons from Late Paleozoic Ice Age sequences in Victoria Land (Antarctica): New constraints on the glaciation of southern Gondwana

L Zurli, G Cornamusini, J Woo, GP Liberato… - GSA …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Lower Permian tillites of the Beacon Supergroup, cropping out in Victoria Land
(Antarctica), record climatic history during one of the Earth's coldest periods: the Late …