Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Landslides, Erosion and Landscape Evolution - Themed Topic, April 2009

Landslides, Erosion and Landscape Evolution – Themed Topic, April 2009

This themed issue highlights ten recent innovative, unconventional, or otherwise significant contributions to ESPL that help advance the state-of-the-art in research on linkages between landslides, hillslope erosion, and landscape evolution. The selected studies address this feedback within a temporal spectrum that ranges from the event to the millennial scale, thus underscoring the importance of detailed field observations, high-resolution digital topographic data, and geochronological methods for increasing our capability of quantifying landslide processes and hillslope erosion. Central to the issue is the recognition that mass movements are not just engineering challenges but fundamental to understanding the way the landscapes function and evolve.

Articles in this issue:

Linking Landslides, Hillslope Erosion, and Landscape Evolution

Oliver Korup

Analysing the relationship between typhoon-triggered landslides and critical rainfall conditions

KT Chang, SH Chiang

Significance of geomorphological and subsurface drainage controls on failures of peat-covered hillslopes triggered by extreme rainfall

AP Dykes, J Warburton

Hillslope-channel sediment transfer in a slope failure event: Wet Swine Gill, Lake District, northern England

RM Johnson, J Warburton, AJ Mills

Effects of earthquake and cyclone sequencing on landsliding and fluvial sediment transfer in a mountain catchment

GW Lin, H Chen, N Hovius, MJ Horng, S Dadson, P Meunier, M Lines

Quantifying hillslope erosion rates and processes for a coastal California landscape over varying timescales

CR O'Farrell, AM Heimsath, JM Kaste

Epigenetic gorges in fluvial landscapes

WB Ouimet, KX Whipple, BT Crosby, JP Johnson, TF Schildgen

Interpreting erosion rates from cosmogenic radionuclide concentrations measured in rapidly eroding terrain

LJ Reinhardt, TB Hoey, TT Barrows, TJ Dempster, P Bishop, LK Fifield

Contemporary versus long-term denudation along a passive plate margin: the role of extreme events

KM Tomkins, GS Humphreys, MT Wilkinson, D Fink, PP Hesse, SH Doerr, RA Shakesby, PJ Wallbrink, WH Blake

Use of LIDAR-derived images for mapping old landslides under forest

M Van Den Eeckhaut, J Poesen, G Verstraeten, V Vanacker, J Nyssen, J Moeyersons, LPH van Beek, L Vandekerckhove

Time-lapse video observation of erosion processes on the Black Marls badlands in the Southern Alps, France

T Yamakoshi, N Mathys, S Klotz