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Missy Cary Eppes
Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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THE PEDOLOGICAL ROLE OF PARTICLE COMMINUTION IN THE REGOLITH CLAY FACTORY
SCIENCE OFF THE BEATEN PATH: FROM DESERT PAVEMENT TO THE TECHNOSPHERE ELIGHTNING
earth and planetary surface processes | 12 december 2024
Daniel Richter, Thierry Allard, Robert S. Anderson...
To examine regolith production of clay minerals and clay-sized particles, we sampled an ancient, transport-limited, 39.6-m deep regolith with pronounc...
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Revising Pleistocene History of Zero-Order Watersheds in the Southern North American Piedmont: Paleo-gullying and the dynamics of hillslope sediment, storage and soil formation
SCIENCE OFF THE BEATEN PATH: FROM DESERT PAVEMENT TO THE TECHNOSPHERE ELIGHTNING
earth and planetary surface processes | 12 december 2024
Terry A. Ferguson, Martha C. Eppes, Daniel Richter
Well-developed, bedrock-derived Ultisol soils on slowly eroding Southern Piedmont slopes are a globally cited exemplar for understanding the evolution...
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An Investigation of Rock Breakdown Processes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
MECHANISMS OF PROGRESSIVE ROCK FAILURE AND FRICTION ACROSS TIME AND SPACE II POSTER
mineral and rock physics | 10 december 2024
Jennifer L. Lamp, Martha C. Eppes, Kate M. Swanger...
The McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV) region is the largest ice-free area in Antarctica, and one of the coldest and driest locations on Earth. The MDV lies wi...
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Seismic Detection of Rock Exfoliation Events at Arabia Mountain, Georgia
ENVIRONMENTAL SEISMOLOGY: A GEOPHYSICAL TOOL TO STUDY SURFACE AND NEAR-SURFACE PROCESSES II POSTER
seismology | 09 december 2024
Zhigang Peng, Aislin Reynolds, Phuc Mach, Yunyi Qi...
On July 17th, 2023, a rock exfoliation event occurred in a former Lithonia Gneiss quarry near Arabia Mountain, Georgia. Field measurements and high-re...
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Rocks have memories of extreme temperatures: progressive fracturing in response to warming climates
MECHANISMS OF PROGRESSIVE ROCK FAILURE AND FRICTION ACROSS TIME AND SPACE I ORAL
mineral and rock physics | 09 december 2024
Martha C. Eppes, Christian David, Michael J. Heap,...
This work is motivated by several explosive rock exfoliation events around the world (e.g. California: Collins et al., 2018; Finland: Leith, 2014; Geo...
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Earth Sciences Are the Model Sciences of the Anthropocene
PERSPECTIVES OF EARTH AND SPACE SCIENTISTS
21 september 2024
Daniel Richter, Sharon A. Billings, Susan L. Brant...
After 4.5 billion years as an evolving and dynamic planet, the Earth continues to evolve but with human‐altered dynamics. Earth scientists ha...
Holocene and Late Pleistocene landscape dynamics in SE US Piedmont Uplands: revisiting hillslope sediment, gully incision, and sediment storage
FROM RIDGELINES TO VALLEYS: HILLSLOPE PROCESSES AND MORPHOLOGY ACROSS SCALES II POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 15 december 2023
Nora Vaughan, Terry A. Ferguson, Martha C. Eppes, ...
A synthesis of recent and historic investigations of low-order watersheds in SE US Piedmont indicate episodic formation of hillslope sediment (HSS), g...
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Evidence for Increase in Crack Damage in Rocks with Duration of Exposure at Earth's Surface
FROM THE TECTONIC ROCK CRUSHER TO THE CRACKING SURFACE: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN PROGRESSIVE ROCK FAILURE, EROSION, AND THE CRITICAL ZONE POSTER
earth and planetary surface processes | 12 december 2023
Philip G. Meredith, Yang Yuan, Monica Rasmussen, K...
Fractures in rock are ubiquitous; occurring at all scales, in all environments and propagating progressively over geologic time. To measure how fractu...
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