'Sex that moves mountains': Spawning salmon play significant role in shaping landscapes
When salmon spawn, the earth moves -- not immediately, but over the course of hundreds of thousands or millions of years.
NSF grant to fund IU research on how tectonic, climate processes are reshaping landscape
Indiana University Bloomington geoscience researcher Brian Yanites has been awarded a three-year, $317,663 grant from the National Science Foundation to study how tectonic and climate processes interact to shape the landscape of southern Taiwan.
Science: Editors' Choice - Brent Grocholski, Geomorphology
The location of copper deposits would seem to have little to tell us about the role of climate on mountain erosion.
Yanites and Kesler, 2015: Nature Geoscience News and Views
The processes that build and shape mountain landscapes expose important mineral resources.
IBT: Climate Affects Copper Deposits
Climate has a strong impact on copper resources, according to a new research by the University of Idaho and the University of Michigan.
Phys.org: A climate signal in the global distribution of copper deposits
Climate helps drive the erosion process that exposes economically valuable copper deposits and shapes the pattern of their global distribution, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Idaho and the University of Michigan.
Clearwater Tribune: UI Researcher’s work reveals pattern in Earth’s copper deposits
About 75 percent of the world’s copper comes from porphyry copper deposits. A new study from the University of Idaho and the University of Michigan unearths how these economically valuable deposits are distributed around the world.
University of Idaho: Digging Into the World of Copper
UI professor’s research reveals new patterns in how economically important copper deposits are distributed across the Earth
AGU: Earthquake‐generated landslides: An important control of riverbed erosion
River erosion is a powerful shaper of topography, cutting through bedrock and over time converting smooth terrain to rolling hills or jagged cliffs.
EOS: Research Spotlight: What controls bedrock channel geometry?
As rivers cut a path through bedrock, what influences the relationship between channel width, slope, and erosion rate?
Geology: How rivers react to large earthquakes: Evidence from central Taiwan
Earthquakes and bedrock river incision are fundamental processes in the evolution of tec-tonically active landscapes, yet little work has focused on understanding how a bedrock river responds to a single large earthquake.