Lent Reading List - Option 2: Earth's Critical Zones
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Journal References
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Niels Hovius G2 2012
Lecture one
Beaumont, C, Fullsack, P., and Hamilton, J. (1992): Erosional control of active compressional orogens. In: McClay, K.R. (ed.), Thrust Tectonics, Chapman and Hall, London, 19-31.
Beaumont, C., Jamieson, R.A., Nguyen, M.H., and Lee, B. (2002): Himalayan tectonics explained by extrusion of a low-viscosity crustal channel coupled to focused surface denudation. Nature, 414, 738-741.
Davis, D., Suppe, J., and Dahlen, F.A. (1983): Mechanics of fold-and-thrust belts and accretionary wedges. Journal of Geophysical Research, 88, 1153-1172.
Willett, S.D., Beaumont, C., and Fullsack, P. (1993): Mechanical model for the tectonics of doubly vergent compressional orogens. Geology, 21, 371-374.
Willett, S.D., Slingerland, R.L., and Hovius, N. (2001): Uplift, shortening, and steady state topography in active mountain belts, American Journal of Science, 301, 455-485.
Lecture 2
Hartshorn, K., Hovius, N., Dade, W.B., and Slingerland, R.L., 2002: Climate-driven bedrock incision in an active mountain belt. Science, 297, 2036-2038.
Howard, A.D., and Kerby, G., 1983: Channel changes in badlands. GSA Bulletin, 94, 739- 752.
Lave, f., and Avouac, J.P., 2001: Fluvial incision and tectonic uplift across the Himalayas of central Nepal. JGR Solid Earth, 106, 26561-26591.
Sklar, L.S., and Dietrich, W.E., 2001: Sediment and rock strength controls on river incision into bedrock. Geology, 29, 1087-1090.
Whipple, K.X., Hancock, G.S., and Anderson, R.S., 2000: River incision into bedrock: mechanics and relative efficacy of plucking, abrasion, and cavitation. GSA Bulletin, 112, 490-503.
Whipple, K.X., and Tucker, G.E., 1999: Dynamics of the stream-power river incision model: implications for height limits of mountain ranges, landscape response time scales, and research needs. JGR Solid Earth, 104, 17661-17674.
Lecture 3
Burbank, D.W., Leland J., Fielding, E., Anderson, R. S., Brozovic, N., Reid, M.R., and Duncan, C. (1996): Bedrock incision, rock uplift and threshold hillslopes in the northwestern Himalayas. Nature, 379, 505-510.
Densmore, A.L., Anderson, R.S., McAdoo, B.G., and Ellis, M.A. (1997): Hillslope evolution by bedrock landslides. Science, 275, 369-372.
Hovius, N., Stark, C.P., and Allen, P.A. (1997): Sediment flux from a mountain belt derived by landslide mapping. Geology, 25, 231-234.
Schmidt, K.M., and Montgomery, D.R. (1995): Limits to relief. Science, 270, 617-620.
Wolman, M.G., and Miller, J.P. (1960): Magnitude and frequency of forces in geomorphic processes. Journal of Geology, 68, 54-74.
Lecture 4
Brozovic, N., Burbank, D.W., and Meigs, A.J., 1997: Climatic limits on landscape development in the northwestern Himalaya. Science, 276, 571-574.
Fielding, E., Isacks, B., Barazangi, M., and Duncan, C., 1994: How flat is Tibet? Geology, 22, 163- 167.
Finlayson, D.P., Montgomery, D.R., and Hallet, B., 2002: Spatial coincidence of rapid inferred erosion with young metamorphic massifs in the Himalayas. Geology, 30, 219-222.
Montgomery, D.R., Balco, G., and Willett, S.D., 2001: Climate, tectonics, and the morphology of the Andes. Geology, 29, 579-582.
Zeitler, P.K., Meltzer, A.M., Koons, P.O., Craw, D., Hallet, B., Chamberlain, C.P., Kidd, W.S.F., Park, 5, Seeber, L., Bishop, M., and Schroder, J., 2001: Erosion, Himalayan geodynamics and the geomorphology of metamorphism. GSA Today, 11, 1.4-9.
Below, the refs are from previous years
Lecture 1 - 6 Dr Albert Galy
Recommended books
- Allen, P.A. & Allen, J.R. Basin Analysis: principles and application: either 1990 or 2005 edition will do
- FitzPatrick, E.A. Soils, Longman, London (1983).
- Garrels, R.M. & Mackenzie, F.T. Evolution of sedimentary rocks New York (1971)
- Ruddiman, W. & Prell, W. eds Global Tectonics and Climate Change, Plenum, New York (1997)
Lecture One
- Berner R.A., Lasaga A.C., and Garrels R.M. (1983) The carbonate-silicate geochemical cycle and its effect on atmospheric carbon dioxide over the past 100 million years. Amer. J. Sci. 283, 641-683.
- Berner RA, Kothavala Z (2001) GEOCARB III: A revised model of atmospheric CO2 over phanerozoic time. Amer. J. Sci. 301, 182-204.
- Broecker W.S. and Sanyal A. (1998) Does atmospheric CO2 police the rate of chemical weathering? Glob. Biogeochem. Cycles 12, 403-408.
- Molnar P. & England P. (1990) Late Cenozoic uplift of mountain ranges and global climate change: chicken or egg. Nature 346, 29-34.
- Raymo M.E. (1994) The Himalayas, organic-carbon burial, and climate in the Miocene. Paleoceanography 9, 399-404.
- Raymo M.E. & Ruddiman W.F. (1992) Tectonic forcing of late Cenozoic climate. Nature 359, 117-122.
- Raymo M.E., Ruddiman W.F., & Froelich P.N. (1988) Influence of late Cenozoic mountain building on ocean geochemical cycles. Geology 16, 649-653.
Practical
- Coxall H.K., Wilson P.A., Pälike H., Lear C.H. & Backman J. (2005) Rapid stepwise onsetof Antarctic glaciation and deeper calcite compensation in the Pacific Ocean. Nature 433: 53-57
- Lear C.H., Bailey T.R., Pearson P.N., Coxall H.K., Rosenthal Y. (2008) Cooling and icegrowth across the Eocene-Oligocene transition. Geology 36: 251-254
- Lear C.H., Rosenthal Y., Coxall H.K., Wilson P.A. (2004) Late Eocene to early Miocene ice sheet dynamics and the global carbon cycle. Paleoceanog. 19: PA4015
- Merico A., Tyrrell T., Wilson P.A. (2008) Eocene/oligocene ocean de-acidification linked to Antarctic glaciation by sea-level fall. Nature 452: 979-U6
- Pearson P.N., McMillan I.K., Wade B.S., Dunkley Jones T., Coxall H.K., Bown P.R., Lear C.H. (2008) Extinction and environmental change across the Eocene-Oligocene boundary in Tanzania. Geology 36: 179-182.
- Ravizza G. & Paquay F. (2008) Os isotope chemostratigraphy applied to organic-rich marine sediments from the Eocene-Oligocene transition on the West African margin(ODP Site 959). Paleoceanog. 23: PA2204
- Zachos JC & Kump LR (2005) Carbon cycle feedbacks and the initiation of Antarctic glaciation in the earliest Oligocene. Glob. Planet. Ch. 47:51-66
Lecture Two
Dr A Galy
Specific papers:
- Galy, A., and France-Lanord, C. (1999). Weathering Processes in the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin and the riverine alkalinity budget. Chem. Geol., 159. 31-60.
- Galy, A., France-Lanord, C., and Derry, L.A. (1999). The Strontium Isotopic Budget of Himalayan Rivers in Nepal and Bangladesh. Geochim and Cosmochim Acta, 63. 1905-1925.
- Milliman J.D. & Meade R.H. (1983) World Delivery of River Sediment to the Oceans. J. Geol. 1, 1-21.
- Tardy, Y., Nkounkou, R. & Probst J.L. (1989) The global water cycle and continental erosion during phanerozoic time (570Ma). Am. J. Sci., 289: 455-483.
- Woodcock, N.H. (2004) Life span and fate of basin. Geology, 32, 685-688
- Zhang P.Z., Molnar P. & Downs W.R. (2001) Increased sedimentation rates and grain sizes 2-4 Myr ago due to the influence of climate change on erosion rates. Nature, 410, 891-897.
Lecture Three
- Burbank, D. W., 1992. Causes of recent Himalayan uplift deduced from deposited patterns in the Ganges basin. Nature, 357: 680-683.
- Burbank, D.W., Derry, L.A. and France-Lanord C., 1993, Reduced Himalayan sediment production 8 Myr ago despite an intensified monsoon: Nature, 364, 48-50.
- Einsele G., Ratschbacher L., & Wetzel A. (1996) The Himalaya-Bengal Fan denudation-accumulation system during the past 20 Ma. J. Geol. 104, 163-184.
- Metivier F. & Gaudemer Y. (1999) Stability of output fluxes of large rivers in South and East Asia during the last 2 million years: implications on floodplain processes. Basin Res., 11, 293-303.
- Metivier F., Gaudemer Y., Tapponnier P. & Klein M. (1999) Mass accumulation rates in Asia during the Cenozoic. Geophys. J. Int., 137, 208-318.
- Molnar, P., England, P., and Martinod, J., 1993, Mantle dynamics, uplift of the Tibetan plateau, and the Indian Monsoon: Reviews of Geophysics, 31, 357-396.
- Mugnier, J.L., Baby P., Colletta B., Vinour P., Bale P. & Leturmy P. (1997) Thrust geometry controlled by erosion and sedimentation: A view from analogue models. Geology, 25: 427-730.
Lecture Four
Specific papers:
- Edmond J.M., Palmer M.R., Measures C.I., Grant B., & Stallard R.F. (1995) The fluvial geochemistry and denudation rate of the Guyana Shield in Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 59, 3301-3325.
- Edmond, J.M., Palmer, M.R., Measures, C.I., Brown, E.T. and Huh, Y. (1996) Fluvial geochemistry of the eastern slope of the northeastern Andes and its foredeep in the drainage of the Orinoco in Colombia and Venezuela. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 60: 2949-2976.
- Gaillardet J., Dupré B., Louvat P., & Allègre C.J. (1999) Global silicate weathering and CO2 consumption rates deduced from the chemistry of large rivers. Chem. Geol., 159, 3-30.
- Gaillardet, J., Dupré, B. and Allègre, C.J., (1995) A global geochemical mass budget applied to the Congo Basin rivers: Erosion rates and continental crust composition. Geochim. Cosmochim. Act, 59, 3469-3485.
- Galy, A., and France-Lanord, C. (1999). Weathering Processes in the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin and the riverine alkalinity budget. Chem. Geol., 159. 31-60.
- Huh Y. & Edmond J.M. (1998) The fluvial geochemistry of the rivers of Eastern Siberia: III. Tributaries of the Lena and Anabar draining the basement terrain of the Siberian Craton and the Trans-Baikal Highlands. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 63, 967-987.
- Louvat P. & Allègre C.J. (1997) Present denudation rates at Réunion island determined by river geochemistry: basalt weathering and mass budget between chemical and mechanical erosions. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 61, 3645-3670.
- Moulton K.L., West J., and Berner R.A. (2000) Solute flux and mineral mass balance approaches to the quantification of plant effects on silicate weathering. Am. J. Sci., 300, 539-570
- West, A.J., Galy, A., Bickle M., (2005). Tectonic and Climatic Controls on Silicate Weathering. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 235, 211-228.
- White A.F. & Blum A.E. (1995) Effects of climate on chemical weathering in watersheds. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 59: 1729-1747.
Lecture Five
Dr A Galy
Lecture Six
Dr A Galy
- Nahon, D.B. (1986) Evolution of iron crusts in tropical landscapes. In Colman, S.M. & Dethier, D.P. Eds. Rates of chemical weathering of rocks and minerals, Academic Press. Chapter 9, 169-192.
- Braucher, R. et al. (1998) Brazilian laterite dynamics using in situ-produced Be-10. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 163, 197-205.
- Brown, E.T. et al. (1994). The development of iron crust lateritic systems in Burkina-Faso, West Africa examined with in-situ-produced cosmogenic nuclides. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 124, 19-33.
- Viers J., Dupré B., Polvé M., Schott J., Dandurand J.-L., & Braun J.-J. (1997) Chemical weathering in the drainage basin of a tropical watershed (Nsimi-Zoetele site, Cameroon): comparison between organic-poor and organic-rich waters. Chem. Geol. 140, 181-206.
- White, A.F. et al. (1998) Chemical weathering in a tropical watershed, Luquillo mountains, Puerto Rico: I. Long-term versus short-term weathering fluxes. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 62: 209-226.
- White, A.F. et al. (2001) Differential rates of feldspar weathering in granitic regoliths. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 65: 847-869.
Lecture Seven
Niels Hovius
- Hartshom, K., Hovius, N., Dade, W.B., and Slingerland, R.L., (2002) Climate-driven bedrock incision in an active mountain belt. Science, 297, 2036-2038, (access:cam domain or vdpn only)
- Howard, AD., and Kerby, G., (1983) Channel changes in badlands. GSA Bulletin, 94, 739-752
- Lave, J., and Avouac, J.P., (2001) Fluvial incision and tectonic uplift across the Himalayas of central Nepal. JGR Solid Earth, 106, 26561-26591
- Skiar, L.S., and Dietrich, W.E., (2001) Sediment and rock strength controls on river incision into bedrock. Geology, 29, 1087-1090
- Whipple, K.X., Hancock, G.S., and Anderson, R.S., (2000) River incision into bedrock mechanics and relative efficacy of plucking, abrasion, and cavitation. GSA Bulletin, 112, 490-503
- Whipple, K.X., and Tucker, G.E., (1999) Dynamics of the stream-power river incision model: implications for height limits of mountain ranges, landscape response time scales, and research needs. JGR Solid Earth, 104, 17661-1 7674.
Lecture Seven Practical
Niels Hovius
- Abbott, L.D., Silver, E.A., Anderson, R.S., Smith, R., Ingle, J.C., Kling, S.A., Haig, D., Small, B., Galewsky, J., and Sliter, W. (1997): Measurement of tectonic surface uplift rate in a young collisional mountain belt. Nature, 385, 50 1-507
- Chappell, J. (1974): Geology of coral terraces, Huon Peninsula, New Guinea: a study of Quaternary tectonic movements and sea level changes. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 85, 553-570, (access:cam domain or vdpn only)
- l-Iaq, B.U., Hardenbol, J., and Vail, P.R. (1987): Chronology of fluctuating sea-levels since the Triassic. Science, 235, 1156-1167
- Linsley, B.K. (1996): Oxygen-isotope record of sea level and climate variations in the Sulu Sea over the past 150,000 years. Nature, 380, 234-237
- Pandolfi, J.M., Best, M.M.R., and Murray, S.P. (1994): Coseismic event of May IS, 1992, Huon Peninsula, Papua New Guinea: comparison with Quatemary tectonic history. Geology, 22, 239-242, (access:cam domain or vdpn only)
- Prentice, M.L., and Matthews, R.K. (1988): Cenozoic ice volume history: development of a composite oxygen isotope record. Geology, 16, 963-966, (access:cam domain or vdpn only)
- Ota, Y., and Chappell, J. (1996): Late Quaternary coseismic uplift events on the Huon peninsula, Papua New Guinea, deduced from coral terrace data. Journal of Geophysical Research, 101, 6071-6082, (access:cam domain or vdpn only)
Lecture Eight
Niels Hovius
- Burbank, D.W., Leland J., Fielding, E., Anderson, R.S., Brozovic, N., Reid, M.R., and Duncan, C. (1996): Bedrock incision, rock uplift and threshold hillslopes in the northwestern Himalayas. Nature, 379, 505-5 10.
- Densmore, A.L., Anderson, R.S., McAdoo, B.G., and Ellis, M.A. (1997): Hillslope evolution by bedrock landslides. Science, 275, 369-372
- Hovius, N., Stark, C.P., and Allen, P.A. (1997): Sediment flux from a mountain belt derived by landslide mapping. Geology, 25, 23 1-234
- Schmidt, K.M., and Montgomery, DR. (1995): Limits to relief. Science, 270, 617-620
- Wolman, M.G., and Miller, J.P. (1960): Magnitude and frequency of forces in geomorphic processes. Journal of Geology, 68, 54-74
Lecture Nine
- Brozovic, N., Burbank, OW., and Meigs, A.J., 1997: Climatic limits on landscape development in the northwestern Himalaya. Science, 276, 57 1-574.
- Fielding, E., Isacks, B,, Barazangi, M., and Duncan, C., 1994: How flat is Tibet? Geology, 22, 163-
- 167.
- Finlayson, OP., Montgomery, DR., and Hallet, 8., 2002: Spatial coincidence of rapid inferred erosion with young metamorphic rnassifs in the Himalayas. Geology, 30, 219-222.
- Montgomery, DR., Balco, G., and Willett, S.D., 2001: Climate, tectonics, and the morphology of the Andes. Geology, 29, 579-582.
- Zeitler, PlC, Meltzer, AM., Koons, P.O., Craw, 0., Hallet, B., Chamberlain, C.P,, Kidd, W.S.F., Park, 5, Seeber, L., Bishop, M., and Schroder, 3., 2001: Erosion, Himalayan geodynamics and the geomorphoiogy of metamorphism. GSA Today, 11, 1,4-9
Lecture Ten
- Beaumont, C, Fuilsack, P., and Hamilton, 1. (1992): Erosional control of active compressional orogens. j McClay, K.R. (ed.), Thrust Tectonics, Chapman and Hall, London, 19-31.
- Beaumont, C., Jamieson, R.A., Nguyen, M.H., and Lee, B. (2002): Himalayan tectonics explained by extrusion of a low-viscosity crustal channel coupled to focused surface denudation. Nature, 414, 738-741.
- Davis, D., Suppe, 3., and Dahien, F.A. (1983): Mechanics of fold-and-thrust belts and accretionary wedges. Journal of Geophysical Research, 88, 1153-1172.
- Willett, S.D., Beaumont, C., and Fuilsack, P. (1993): Mechanical model for the tectonics of doubly vergent cornpressional orogens. Geology, 21, 371-374.
- Willett, S.D., Slingerland, R.L., and Hovius, N. (2001): Uplift, shortening, and steady state topography in active mountain belts. American Journal of Science, 301, 455-485.
Lecture Eleven
- Carter L. et al, 2002: Source, sea level and circulation effects on the sediment flux to the deep ocean over the past 15 ka off eastern New Zealand. Global and Planetary Change, 33, 339-355.
- Crosby B.T and Whipple K.x., 2006: xniclcpoint initiation and distribution within fluvial networks: 236 waterfalls in the Waipaoa River, North Island, New Zealand. Geomorphology, 82, 16-38.
- Eden D.N. and Page MI,, 1998: Palaeoclimatic implications of a storm erosion record from late Holocene lake sediments, North Island, New Zealand. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 139, 37-58.
- Gomez B. et at., 1998: Floodplain construction by recent, rapid vertical accretion: Waipaoa River, New Zealand. Earth Surface Processes andLandforms, 23, 405-413.
- Gomez B. et at., 2002: Self-organized criticality in layered, lacustrine sediments formed by landsliding. Geology, 30,
- 5 19-522.
- Gomez B. et at., 2004: El Nino-Southem Oscillation signal associated with middle Holocene climate change in Interconnected terrestrial and marine sediment cores, North Island, New Zealand. Geology, 32, 653-656.
- Gomez B. et al., 2007: A 2400 yr record of natural events and athropogenic impacts in intercorrelated terrestrial and
- marine sediment cores: Waipaoa sedimentary system, New Zealand. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 119, 1415-
- 1432.
- Hicks D.M. et aI., 2000: Erosion thresholds and suspended sediment yields, Waipaoa River basin, New Zealand. Water Resources Research, 36, 1129-1142.
- Hicks D.M. et al., 2004: Event suspended sediment characteristics and the generation of hyperpycnal plumes at river mouths: East Coast Continental Margin, New Zealand. Journal of Geology, 112, 461-485.
- Kettner Al. et al., 2007: Modeling suspended sediment discharge from the Waipaoa River system, New Zealand: The last 3000 years. Water Resources Research, 43, W07411, doi:10,1029/2006WR005570.
- Marutani T. et al., 1999: Influence of storm-related sediment storage on the sediment delivery from tributary catchments in the upper Waipaoa River, New Zealand. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 24, 88 1-896.
- Page MI. et al., 1994: Sediment budget to assess the geomorphic effect of a cyclonic storm, New Zealand. Geomorphology, 9, 169-188.
- 0rpm A.R., 2004: Ijolocene sediment deposition on the Poverty-slope margin by the muddy Waipaoa Tiver, East Coast New Zealand Journal of Geology, 209, 69-90.
- Trustrum NA. et a]., 1999: Sediment production, storage and output: the relative role of large magnitude events in steepland catchments. Zeitschrfflfur GeomorphologieN.F., 115,71-86.
- Walsh 1.1’. et at., 2007: Demise of a submarine canyon? Evidence for highstand infilling on the Waipaoa River continental margin, New Zealand. Geophysical Research Letters, 34, L20606, doi:10.l029/2007GL031142.
Lecture Twelve
Lecture Thirteen
Lecture Fourteen
Sasha Turchyn
General reading for lectures 14 to 16
- DePaolo & Getty, S. R., (1996) Models of isotopic exchange in reactive fluid-rock systems: Implications for geochronology in metamorphic rocks, Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 60, 3933-3947
- Richter, F. M., (1996) Models for the coupled Sr-sulfate budget in deep-sea carbonates, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 141,
Lecture Fifteen
Lecture Sixteen
Sasha Turchyn
- Giles, M.R & de Boer, R.B (1989), Secondary porosity: creation of enhanced porosities in the subsurface from the dissolution of carbonate cements as a result of cooling formation waters, Marine and Petroleum Geology, 6, 261-269
- Maliva, R. G. (1998), Skeletal aragonite neomorphism — quantitative modelling of a two-water diagenetic system, Sedimentary Geology, 121, 179-190
- Perry, C. T. (1998), Grain susceptibility to the effects of microboring: implications for the preservation of skeletal carbonates, Sedimentology, 45, 39-51
- Kurt Zenz House,D. P.Schrag, C.F.Harvey &KlausS.Lackner, Perrmanent carbon dioxide storage in deep-sea sediments, PNAS, 103,
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