Rivers through geological time: the fluvial contribution to understanding of our planet

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. (2014) 'Rivers through geological time : the uvial contribution to understanding of our planet.', Proceedings of the Geologists' Association., 125 (5-6). pp. 503-510.Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2014.11.001Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be re ected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A de nitive version was subsequently published in Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 125, December 2014, 10.1016/j.pgeola.2014.11.001. Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details.

Rivers of the Variscan Foreland: fluvial morphodynamics in the Pennant Formation of South Wales, UK

“…Earth's surface since the Archean (Hjellbakk 1997;Eriksson et al 2006;Gibling & Davies 2012;Ielpi et al 2017;Bridgland et al 2014, Ganti et al 2019. Their hydrodynamic and morphodynamic properties are recorded in the stratigraphic record (Whittaker 2012;Ganti et al 2014, Bhattacharya et al 2016, allowing researchers to reconstruct the characteristics and behaviour of ancient fluvial systems from the geological archive (e.g., Michael et al 2014;Ganti et al 2019;Chamberlin & Hajek 2019;Lyster et al 2021).…”

Variability of fluvial architecture in a poorly vegetated Earth: Silurian sheet‐braided and meandering ancestor river deposits recorded in northeastern Brazil

“…Kenrick & Crane, ; Steemans et al, ; Salamon et al , ). Their increased abundance through the Silurian correlates with a marked decrease of the sheet‐braided style fluvial architecture, characterized by relatively thin and wide sediment bodies interpreted as channels much shallower and wider than the latter dominant meandering and braided streams (Cotter, ; Long, ; Fuller, ; Davies & Gibling, ; Davies et al, ; Bridgland, Bennett, McVicar‐Wright, & Scrivener, , but see Santos, Almeida, Godinho, Marconato, & Mountney, , Ielpi & Rainbird, , Ielpi, and Ganti, Whittaker, Lamb, & Fischer, for alternative views). Accordingly, the frequency of preserved meandering river deposits seems to increase from the Silurian to the present, in parallel to the adaptive evolution of land plants to new environments (Davies et al, ; Fuller, ; Gibling & Davies, ; Gibling et al, ; McMahon & Davies, ).…”