“…The greater reduction in height than in length of these relict ripples is consistent with increased bed clay and EPS content in the experiments of Baas et al (2013) and Malarkey et al (2015), respectively. The gradual reduction in ripple height during inundations 15, 16, and 17 is inferred to relate to the increase in bed clay and EPS content measured by Lichtman et al (2018, their Figure 4) by drawing cohesive clay into the bed through hyporheic processes (Dallmann et al, 2020;Wu et al, 2021).…”